Ethics means the correct way of doing a certain things. This means an employee working for a business/organisation should be doing the right things. Ethics also refers to the specific values, standards, rules, and agreements people adopt for conducting their lives. This is important to an organisation because they need to be following all the rules within the business/organisation.
Freedom of Information
Freedom of information means being able to get information when requested. This means businesses that are run by the government are obliged to give the consumer information when asked. This means that members of the public are entitled to request for information from public authorities. Freedom of information can affect and organisation IT security by accidentally giving out information which could be used for fraud. This is linked to ethics by making sure the business giving the information does not give any other information that they didn’t request.
The advantages of the freedom information act are The public is kept knowledgeable about the actions of its government. Also the officials in the government are kept honest because what they do can be made public. The disadvantage of freedom information is that the release of certain information could jeopardize relationships. The release of other information could affect the conduct of negotiations. If tactical information were released it could put our troops in harm.
Personal privacy
Personal privacy means that you want to be doing a certain thing on your own without anyone else knowing or seeing. If they do know what you are doing that is known by invading your personal space. It is also the too ability to be able to control what personal information you send out over the Internet or the personal information about you that you allow other people to access.
The
disadvantages of personal privacy is that the context of the organisation
personal privacy is that people are watching your every movement and when you
log in to a system on a pc they will know what you are doing as they are
watching you which that is an invasion of your personal space.The
advantage of personal privacy is that you are free to do anything in your area
of workspace like in a. office rather than having workstations.Ethics
is linked to personal privacy as it is a wrong thing to do to invade some ones
space by watching there every single movement It is better for them to only
check the person they are watching only from time to time.
Permission
The
current issue with CCTV is that they might be used in the wrong by spying on
people which is an invasion to their privacy. Many people welcome CCTV on the
streets of our towns and cities in the fight against crime. It can also help to
secure the convictions of criminals who might have otherwise been able to go
about their business and remain undetected.
The
ethical issues attached are that CCTV is not being use the way there supposed
to be used. Most of the times it is an
invasion to their personal space.
Conclusion
Over all I have
talked about ethics, freedom of information, personal privacy and the current
issues regarding the use of CCTV. I have talked about why is it important for
an organisation to consider ethics when dealing with personal information. I
have also talked about freedom of information and it advantages and
disadvantages and how it is linked to ethics. I have also talked about personal
private and
its advantages and disadvantage. I have also mentioned in the work about the
current issues regarding the use of CCTV, videos and photo to capture people’s
movements.