LSBM201: Report on Ethics in Information Technology and Business

This report, prepared for the LSBM201 module, delves into the critical areas of ethics in information technology and ethical issues within international business. The introduction establishes the importance of data privacy and the ethical considerations surrounding information technology, highlighting the potential misuse of data and the need for robust security measures. The main body examines the enforcement agencies' access to information and the ethical principles governing information technology, including discussions on the digital divide. The report further analyzes ethical challenges in international business, such as honesty, integrity, and loyalty, while also assessing the ethical implications of illegal labor practices. The report uses primary and secondary research, including observations on unethical practices within international businesses. The conclusion emphasizes the need for strict regulations and legislation to safeguard data privacy and promote ethical conduct in international business, ensuring fair labor practices and the protection of human rights.

ETHICS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Ethics in information technology................................................................................................3
Ethical issues in international businesses....................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Data privacy refers to the information privacy, which is related with the information
technology which says about that there is need to secure the information and should only be
shared with the legal third party which are there for the legal information along with authority.
Information is the one which is very powerful in today's time, one is able to change the whole
life or scenario of the people with misusing the information. Privacy is the one which is one of
the most important thing in today's time which need to be secure there and need to have such that
there should no one there who have the authority to unauthorised authority. In this report there is
the discussion about the information technology agency which are there have the ethical way to
access the private data of the people along with this there is the information about the ethical
principle which are there which can help one to get the relevant information technology which is
in relation to IT. There is also some discussion about the ethical issues which are there in the
international business along with principles along with observations (Kim and et. al., 2019).
MAIN BODY
Ethics in information technology
Enforcement agencies which are having the authority to access the information of the
people and are there able to get the information which is in relation to ethical way only. There
are many chances to get the information and use such as the misconduct some illegal activity
which is not the good way and there are many of the laws which are there for such unethical
practices which are there for saving such data from such activities. They are not legally advices
to get such private data access which is one of the illegal activity in the information technology
and there are many of the measures which are there can deal with such activity. There are many
of the law which are there can for the law enforcement which are there broken in three different
categories. First, there is need to gather along with analysing the information which can help in
determination that there is the violation of law there. Second, to find out the law violating person
there is need to collect the information and after that analysing it which can help in finding out
the person. Third, there is need to find out the information which can help in proving that the
people is guilty of violation in the court (Banta 2018). Such that there are many of the rules and
regulation which are there for the person who is there in the system who are having the authority
to access the information which also known by the violation of law of privacy.

ethical principles are most relevant to information technology. There can be the worst case which
are there when there is unrestricted access of the communication there of general population
there. There are several examples there in which there is misuse of the information which can
have a drastic impact on that persons life who is the victim of the leaked information of their
communication. In this, there is chances of finding out the private talk, confidential data etc.
which is there can have the high level of impact there in their life and could be misused of such
information. For example- when mister x is talking with his business partner about the strategy
which is there can help in growing the business drastically and can help in getting high level of
profit in the business. And that time there is someone who is accessing unethically to get such
information there and after that when mister x is ready to implement that strategy there is
someone else already implemented such strategy which is very difficult to mister x and may be
there is chance of getting huge loss in the business which is not affordable at that stage. Middle
man who had the access of the communication of mister x, sells out the information to rival
company which implement the strategy before mister x. such like that there are many of the
examples there which are there can cause the drastic problem to the person whose information
and privacy has been violated (Fontrodona and et. al., 2018).
In relation to afford the data in the private email account, that are many less chances
because it can affordable in terms of money but it can vary expensive in terms of privacy.
Because there are many of the organisation there who are having the authority to access even
your private email with anyone's concern. So, it can't be said that to maintain the privacy of the
data in the personal email is possible. When the government agency need to get the information
or want to access of private email, then they don't need any authority permission to get the
information and this means. It can't be possible to safe your information, just like in a locked
desk drawer. There is no need of warrant to the higher authority person to get the private
information which is there in the private email.
Digital divide refers to a gap which is there between the demographic along with region
which have access to the communication technology along with modern information and don't
having any type of restriction on the access of the information there (Gupta 2018). Closing the
digital divide is an important which is due to the privacy context which is there need to have the
security there in the access of the information which is there can have the misconduct of such
issues which are there can lead to negative impact on the privacy along with the life.

Ethical issues in international businesses
There are many of the issues there in the international businesses which are there have
the negative impact and can have the ability to take loss in the business. There are many of the
ethical principles there in the international business in which some of them are like honesty,
integrity, loyalty, fairness, respect for others, law abiding, promise keeping and trustworthiness
etc (Chase and et. al., 2020). Honesty is the one which is there by to run the business with trust
with other business. In this there is need to have faith and trust with the business firm who are
there for increasing the profit by purchasing item along with this there are many of the customer
which are there who are motivated by the honesty of the brand only. Loyalty is the one which
depends on the honesty in relation to the business and customer and there are many of them
which get insure about the safe urn of business and get the right product or services and get loyal
towards that brand. Such like that there are many of the principals have their own values in the
international business. In all there is honesty and loyalty are the one which are there most
relevant to internation business which is due to its main importance in the business.
According to the given topic of research which is there about the illegal profit which is
earn by the international businesses in related with private economy. There is the information
which are related with the research where there is use of the primary research along with
secondary research (Babran and et. al., 2019). In this, there is primary research that researchers
of the University of Sheffield had done some of the questions there which were related with their
research topic and there are many of the observation there in the research information which says
about there are many of the international businesses which are there exploiting the illegal
workforce which is related with the forced labour, unethical labour practices, lower living wages
etc. are there which are there not the ethically right. But due to lack of information and due to
having poverty people of that place are forced to do their job on low wages and thus the
production of the brand products get high along with production cost is very low. This gives high
level of profit to the company and there are many of the brands which are using such practices
there. Research is generally based on the primary research and also there is use of secondary
information which is collected by the internet (Ho and et. al., 2016). There are some of the key
messages there which were related with the ethics and ethical practices in the business which is
there in the international businesses. In this there are about many of the company are there which

are having different types of illegal activities are there in the business which are there creating
the high level of exploiting of the ethics in the international businesses (Kimura 2018).
According to the 2020 information and communication technology benchmark findings
report which is regarding the ICT sector supply chain in which there are practice of the legal
practices which should be there in the international businesses but reality is that there are about
he 73% of the companies are not following the ethical rules and the exploitation of the labour are
there on the minimum wages which is there in lack of information and rules regarding this. In
this research report it is by the primary research in which there is finding that many of the
businesses are there who are not practising in legal way and there are no any action regarding
this issues. There are many of the country which are doing such types of unethical labour
practices in which some of them have improved in the performance alo0ng with practices. Till
now there are many of them there which are doing such types of unethical practices which have
the result of crime and should be taken some legal actions against them (Pusti and et. al., 2017).
In this research there are many of the key massages there which are there can help in
getting over such conditions but due to having the political power and some unethical practices
in the businesses creates such types of dilemma which are there create such practices in the
international businesses. There is information regarding the workers, student workers, migrant
workers, women workers etc. This is regarding the safe practices along with this there is need to
change such illegal practices there which are not good for the workers.
There are some of the common observation is there both of the report which is there are
many of practices there in the related business in which there are conduction of the unethical
practises. There is need to have regulation in the international businesses which can apply the
ethics in the practical manner to save the humanity in the ethical way by providing the regular
wages without any exploitation of the labours there in the business. There are about many of the
law which are already exist there in case of any unethical conduction but due to having lack of
knowledge and less confidence along with afraid of loosing the job there in the company push
business to take unethical in the practices (Okpo 2020).
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that there are many of the ethics which are
related with the privacy of data where information should be kept private and without concern
there should not be access on the privacy of people. Such practices should be there which

includes the information technology team who are have the access to other privacy in relation to
data and information, so there is need to have some strict rules and legislation in relation to keep
the privacy safe. There is also some discussion about the ethical issues which are there in the
international businesses. In which there are many of the law to overcome through it but they are
generally on the law and paper as documentation but not really good in practices.

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