Ethical Concerns in Information Technology: A Detailed Report

This report delves into the ethical issues associated with information technology, particularly focusing on data security and privacy concerns related to the collection and tracking of personal information. It examines ethical challenges arising from access to user data, including the potential for misuse and the impact on individuals' rights. The report also explores the ethical implications of GPS tracking and the concerns surrounding the storage and potential hacking of data. Furthermore, it includes a literature review that highlights how IT professionals respond to these ethical challenges, mentioning regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and HIPPA. The report emphasizes the importance of data security and the protection of individuals' rights to privacy in the digital age.

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Table of Contents
Information technology ethical issues.............................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Ethical issues...............................................................................................................................3
Literature review..............................................................................................................................4
How ethical IT professional response..........................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
In this report ethical issues are addressing that is associated with data security and privacy
concern related with tracking valuable personal information of people. The report also
covers literature review of how IT professional response towards the ethical issue of data
security.
MAIN BODY
Ethical issues
Access to user personal information
The ethical issues related to the family of the IT professional belongs to the parent as well as
family that facing the difficult ethical issues. These are the issues that include to observing the
parenting practices that may be harmful for the individual person for the sometime. as well as
sometimes this is related from the social standards and the customs of the family that is provided
by the family to the person (Tzimas, 2021). As well as the values developed by the family is
sometimes showing the benchmark for the person, that shows the person cannot go beyond their
values and beliefs. As well as when it comes to the financial problem the financial problem and
its relating to the analysis that will help in creating the success and wellbeing. Within the
healthcare industry the IT professional the financial reporting and the analysis should come with
the ethics. The most common problem related to the ethics that is related to the faking of the
numbers. And with the poor documentation that is being the outlook of the financial problems
within the organization. And there should be some of the trouble with the estimated that is
fraudulent with the numbers that is related to the ethical concerns. With the fake numbers, the
investors may look at the something that is related to the fake number within their segment of
accounting.
GPs tracking data
There are four main ethical issue that comes with the privacy, accuracy, property and
accessibility. the GPS tracking great concern related with the amount of the information that can
be reduced with the help from the analysis of the personal movements. When the GPs is being

turned on or of (Izang and et.al., 2017). The GPS systems helps within the transmit the locations
of the particular individuals within the Infringe of the individual’s right to its privacy. Because
sometimes GPs can also pass the information that is related to person personal information. This
will be sometimes beyond the ethics (Venturi, 2017). This information could be sold for the
companies that is used for the enforcement that is unofficial and this is also beyond the ethics. As
well as the GPs system are a way to helps and track and monitor their activities, this is also
beyond their ethics. As well as the data created by the GPs can be stored within the computer
that can be hacked by the hackers, this is also beyond to their ethics.
Literature review
How ethical IT professional response
According to the views of ( Jeff Petters, 2020) It professional are much concern about data
security and privacy of consumer valuable information. There is a great importance of data
security in the IT professionalism because each individual has right to not use their personal
information in order to harm their financial transaction or medical records etc. That is why data
security or privacy concern is mainly focus upon data security so that external attackers can not
hack the personal information in respect of malicious insiders. The data protection aims towards
managing force in respect of right to privacy act. This covers lots of data protection portfolio and
security applications in order to solve the problem of data privacy. In order of IT department
response towards the ethical issue of data security and privacy concern they develop some
application, laws or regulations like GDPR, CCPA, HIPPA that secure all type of valuable
information of people from the hacker. The CCPA protects the actual rights in order secure data
from the company who steal the data for their raising level of sale. Through this individual has
right to hide their personal information from the hacker company. On the other hand GDPR also
protect the personal information and delivers laws in order tom protect the information of
potential consumer. This contain specific rules that encompasses store data for the data
protection of personal information. These regulation protect the public interest in business and
society to solve ethical issues.

CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been analysed that data security and privacy concern with
people information is actual right of them. They must follow all types of data security regulation
or application in order to protect their data.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Izang, A.A. and et.al., 2017. Security and ethical issues to cloud database. Journal of Computer
Science and Its Application, 24(2), pp.65-75.
Tzimas, D. and Demetriadis, S., 2021. Ethical issues in learning analytics: a review of the
field. Educational Technology Research and Development, pp.1-33.
Venturi, M., 2017. Developing Sustainability: Some Scientific and Ethical Issues. In Sustainable
Nanosystems Development, Properties, and Applications (pp. 657-680). IGI Global.
ONLINE
Data security, 2020. [online available] through < https://www.varonis.com/blog/data-privacy/ >