Social+and+Ethical+issues

=Section 1: Social and Ethical issues=

The widespread use of IT raises questions about social and ethical issues that shape the world today. Ethics has to do with making a choice between different alternatives: Right or wrong. Making good decision applies now in technology. Is it right or wrong to read other people's emails without their consent? Is it right to save other people's personal information in a database? Is it right to copy from the internet? What is acceptable and what is not acceptable with society? What is legal and what is illegal?
 * 1.1 Reliability ||
 * 1.2 integrity ||
 * 1.3 Security ||
 * 1.4 Privacy and anonymity ||
 * 1.5 Authenticity ||
 * 1.6 Intellectual property ||
 * 1.7 Equality of access ||
 * 1.8 Control ||
 * 1.9 Globalization and cultural diversity ||
 * 1.9 Policies and standards ||
 * 1.10 People and machine ||