In: Accounting
What are the key ethical issues related to computer privacy?
Individuals wish to have control over what information is kept about them and to whom this information is disseminated. Databases exist that store such items as merchandise purchases and movie rentals. Businesses oftentimes trade and/or sell the information kept in these databases. The ethical issues regarding the transfer of this information is an ethics question of privacy.
People desire data control in databases, with ethical concerns about privacy and information sharing.