Ethical Dilemma: Issues and Solutions in IT

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Bibliography: A dilemma in IT: Select action end of video and see its consequence. (2019).
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Ethical issues related to ICT
The ethical issues that are present due to the processing of lack of testing before coming
live includes chances of performing Identity theft of data that are stored in the database of the
system. Hacking of data and not maintaining location privacy. These issue might harm the users
of the IT system which might lead to decrease the good will of the business organization.
Implication of ethical problems
The implication of Identity theft might affect the victim in both financial as well as social
manner. In case of financial issue, disputing an individual’s identity will affect the usage of the
credit cards and banking liabilities in a negative manner. Bank account management will also be
an issue in case of getting victimized with identity theft. In case of identity theft, imposter can
act on behalf of the victim. Imposters can use the banking details of the victim and perform
transactions. This will affect the victim in financial manner (Frattasi & Della Rosa 2017). Denial
of identity will prevent the original owner from performing transaction via banking processes.
Despite being the fact that financial issue has been the major issue that is present, social aspect of
an individual is also affected in a negative manner. In case of identity thefts, gaining of
passwords of social media and email accounts also cause a significant affect to the victims.
Victims lose their contact details which might affect their daily lives. This issue of identity theft
is caused as the robustness of the framework is not adequate (Li et al, 2018). This lack of
adequate security measure is a result of lack of testing process.

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The implication of hacking of data also affects the corporate sector immensely. In case
the database of a corporate sector is hacked, data that are present in the database of the untested
IT system can be accessed in an unauthorized manner. Entire data set can be blocked from
accessing. This will affect the business organization. Alteration of the data that are stored in
database also affects the business management in a negative manner (Ma, Yang & Yang 2015).
Introduction if malware and ransomware affect the functioning of the system. This inefficient
functioning of the system leads to improper data management and data analysis. In case personal
data of the clients are well gathered without proper permission of the client’s whereabouts of the
client can be easily detected. This acts as an ethical issue that needs to be mitigated. With
altering of personal data via hacking, conflicts might arise as the data that will be conveyed by
the victim will contradict with the data that will be present in the database of the system. All this
will occur only if the robustness of the system in not maintained. This issue of lack of robustness
can arise only if proper testing of the system is not made. In case proper testing is made, issues
will get detected in the initial stage and hence can be mitigated before it affects the user.
Location privacy of individuals are also affected. This is one of the major affects that are
imposed is that tracking of each and every personnel can be done. This affects the processing in a
negative manner. This location detection can be performed only if the imposters can get into the
navigation channel of the system that is present with the travelling individual. This caused as
proper testing is not made (Ma et al, 2015). In case proper testing was made, this issue could
have been easily mitigated.
Solutions of the problems
The identity theft can occur when some steals or illegally uses some other people’s
identity to commit some kind of crime or fraud. Thus, it is very much important to resist the