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Assignment Information Technology Ethics

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Added on  2020-04-07

Assignment Information Technology Ethics

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Information Technology EthicsIntroduction Information technology plays a crucial role in our life. Its different applications are used for business as well as for other personal web related activities. For last many years, IT has been growing enormously and providing various benefits to its users. Moreover, now advanced version of IT is Information Communication and Technology (ICT) and it is considered as effective solution for high quality communication and content sharing anywhere in the world. ICT has connected several devices through vast networks that work as effective modes of interaction among people. There is no doubt that with the help of ICT, business organizations areproviding amazing telecommunication services to its users. But on flip side, some security and privacy related issues are also found by users of ICT. These issues are known as ICT-related ethical issues. For every user who is using online services and submitting its data online, securityis the prior concern. Here a media article is selected about Open Internet and this essay will emphasize on ICT ethical issue of security that is mentioned in this article. Further, the analysis about media article will be done on the behalf of classical ethical theories. Page | 2
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Information Technology EthicsDiscussionAccording to media article, EU has done commitment in 2015 to adopt net neutrality rules. Then in 2016, these rules were applied in EU. These rules and regulations are considered big revolution in digital single market. Under these rules, open internet access is the right of every end-user and distribution of content of internet and services can also be done by them according to their choices. This EU law of open internet ensures that no blocking, throttling and discrimination will be done for applicants anywhere in EU. Moreover, users also have free access to favorite apps and services whether they have subscribed or not. There will be no prioritization among network traffic, everyone will be treated equally. The management and technical requirements will also be fulfilled at priority basis for everyone in EU. The implementation of these common rules of net neutrality shows that internet access providers will not pick losers and winners over internet (Digital Single Market, 2017).This step of open internet in EU is effective to provide open service to people without any partiality. But in case of open internet access chances of lack of security and privacy of information increase and can cause problem for users. So here sustainability of security and privacy of information is very much important. It means, here in this article security is an ICT ethical issue. The four classical ethical theories that are required to discuss in this essay are utilitarianism, deontology, virtue and contract. Analyze of Media Article on the behalf of Ethical Theories Utilitarianism The main focus of this classical theory is on right and wrong outcomes of an action. Besides this,utilitarianism also describes that an option is considered as best if that has potential to increase maximum utility. After analyzing this media article about open internet on behalf of this theory Page | 3
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