IT Ethics

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IT Ethics
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Introduction
Ethics is a type of moral philosophy, which majorly involves appropriate
categorization, defending as well as recommendation of concepts for right or wrong conduct
(Noddings, 2013). The three major types of this ethics are the Meta ethics, applied ethics and
normative ethics. The Meta ethics describes about the hypothetical analysis as well as
referencing of the moralized propositions and procedure of the respective truth values so that
they could be easily determined. Normative ethics describes about the applied methods for
determining the moral courses of actions and finally applied ethics describes about the
obligations of persons’ actions in any particular situation. The following essay outlines a brief
discussion on the ethical issue faced in the selected case study of “Early Launch”.
Discussion
Brief Idea of Case Study
The program director has called Gregg, the project manager for discussing about the
early launch of Willis project (Scenario 3: Early Launch. 2018). The program director has
instructed the project manager to deliver this project earlier without encryption. Gregg,
however is not happy with the decision since, he feels that the software might crash without
encryption and the client would be extremely dissatisfied with the Willis project. However,
the CEO of the company is pressurizing the program director as the project is over 3 million
and they are worried that Willis project might not sign another contract. Hence, to please the
client, they have decided to launch the project one month earlier (Scenario 3: Early Launch.
2018). According to Gregg, the senior developer of the project, Jason feels that encryption is
mandatory for Willis system. For this point, the program director has advised to complete the
encryption of the software after the launch.

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Identification of Ethical Issue in the Case Study
The above mentioned case study clearly demonstrates about the ethical dilemma that
Gregg is facing during the conversation with the program director (Lacan, 2013). The CEO of
the organization as well as the CIA is pressurizing the program director to launch the Willis
project one month prior to the deadline for satisfying the client so that that client would agree
for more contracts. As per the program director, the worth of Willis project was for more than
3 million and hence it is important to keep the project and to deliver it before time (Fromm,
2013). However, as per Gregg, the encryption is not done yet and the early launch of the
software would be problematic for the software. The program director thinks of encryption
after the launch of this software. The most important ethical issue in the above provided case
study is that the software is being launched before proper testing and encryption. The client
might face a major issue due to this since the Willis project would crash (Peters, 2015). It is
absolutely unethical to launch the software before encryption.
Analysis of Ethical Issue in Respect to Australian Computer Society Code of
Professional Conduct
The ACS Code of Professional Conduct consists of six significant codes, which are
primacy of the public interest, enhancement of quality of life, honesty, competence,
professional development and professionalism (Niebuhr, 2013). The case study of early
launch could be judged on the bases of these six codes and the details are provided below:
i) The Primacy of the Public Interest: This code refers to the fact that the individual
must place the respective public interests above of the several personal, business as well as
sectional interests. However, in this particular case study, the program director and the CEO
of the company has put their personal and business interests on the top and hence they are
being unethical.