For this assignment, you will research an issue related to information technology ethics. You may want to select a topic you feel will have an impact on your professional life. Your paper will be a minimum of three pages long. You must have a minimum of three references, cited using APA (6th edition) guidelines. Papers that do not meet the project requirements will receive point deductions.
Choose One:
There are many options to pursue. Here are some possibilities:
- Access or digital divide.
- Legal liability or accountability.
- Codes of ethics.
- Fair information practice principles.
- Privacy protection.
- Electronic medical records/HIPAA.
- Copyrights.
- The role of cookies.
- Data mining, property rights.
- Hackers and hacking.
- Criminal behavior on the Internet.
- Global issues.
- Policy approaches (for example, privacy policies or employer policies related to cyberethics).
- Social implications and social values.
- Laws and the legal system.
- Whistle blowing.
- Workplace monitoring.
- Viruses.
- Social networks.
- Biometric technology.