Privacy ethical issues

Ethical Issues Privacy, Liability, Ownership, and Power... 

ETHICAL ISSUES PRIVACY, LIABILITY, OWNERSHIP, AND POWER... 

Ethical Issue The key ethical issue in this case is how Diane should respond to the client s choice of a DBMS design that offers weak security put differently, one that offers a low level of informational privacy protection for client s employees. 

Engineers ability to address ethical issues related to technology advancement, e.g., privacy issues in computer software/conununication and... 

With any increase in the involvement of DNA sequencing in forensics comes the likelihood that debate will intensify concerning privacy issues regarding the use of sequence information. Unlike commonly used methods of PGR analysis, SNP determination will reveal certain details about suspects that could he open to abuse. Ethical issues involving the use and dissemination of DNA data will have to be resolved as the methods of DNA analysis continue to evolve. 

Ethical issues are appropriately accounted for (e.g., privacy and confidentiality, coercion)... 

The single best source for quick and reasonably thorough access to the body of knowledge associated with computer ethics is Deborah Johnson s Computer Ethics (3rd edition, 2001). The first edition of that work [17], the first book listed under computer ethics in the Philosopher s Index, provides a conceptual framework for the issues of privacy, liability, ownership, and power. Despite its very early appearance in the short history of computer ethics, much of the analysis retains its value. 

The previous sort of question is relevant to the matter of computer use and the issue of privacy. In fact, computer use may have altered the way we think and should think of privacy. Before the advent and prevalence of computers, intrusions into an individual s privacy were largely time- and place dependent. The intrusion could be done but only on a small scale. As Johnson [15] notes, however, computers have changed the nature of intrusion into privacy as well as the scale of intrusion into privacy. The result is a demand to rethink privacy and rethink the framework of applied ethics, especially because the scale of intrusion may change the qualitative nature of the offense. 

Key to the development of a biomedical informatics architecture is the ethics and privacy issues inherent in any healthcare endeavor. Even though the IT industry sees this as an opportunity not a contraindication, the handling of genotypic and phenotypic data requires a high level of security to protect its highly sensitive and personal nature. Conformity to the statutory requirements for the protection of privacy will require the biomedical informatics field to be developed with the issues of privacy and security in mind. 

The problems of genetic testing are psychological or technical in nature. Issues related to insurance, employment discrimination and privacy have received much attention. Additional ethical concerns arise when no effective intervention is available and when prenatal testing is considered for diseases with late-onset or minimal effects. 

Research involving human participants is typically governed by policies on ethical practices underpinned by a number of principles, eg, merit of the research, informed consent of participants, issues related to vulnerable subjects, privacy of participants, minimization of harm, limitation of deception, avoidance of conflicts of interest, cultural and social sensitivity, and publication of results. Ethics committees routinely require that consideration be given to a range of factors, and require prior decisions on ... 

Social acceptability refers to the context in which the system will be used that is to say, how well the system suits the social habits of the user (e.g., in terms of ethics, privacy issues). 

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