Organizations have a right, and sometimes even an obligation, to monitor activity on their computers or network, but the ethics involved are often blurred. The growing presence of surveillance technology is directly related to the nature and the wide spread use of computer technology; particularly the expanding use of computer networks. ... The right of an employer to monitor an employee's computer is an ethical issue that is subject to individual interpretation. ... Nonetheless, courts typically side with employers, determining that employers own their company computers and related resou...

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Computer crime first is a very new problem in our society today and it is crimes that are committed from a computer. ... Many of the crimes committed on computers often times go unpunished. ... Many of those that commit computer crimes are hackers or people who hack into computer systems for both fun and for gaining access to information. ... Thomas McEwen in the article Computer Ethics many hackers believe that "computerized data [is] free and should be accessible to anyone (McEwen 1991; 8-11). ... Computer crime serves in society as a way for the computer Internet to police itself by creatin...

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The Internet The Internet is like a network of networks where any computer can link up to information stored within it. ... It is brought to your computer screen by converting analogue telephone signals into digital computer signals. ... It can circulate freeware and shareware that a user can download to his or her computer. ... The ethics of using the Internet can cause problems too. ... Whenever we access a site, something called a "cookie" is stored on our computer to track our behaviour with this site. ...

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With today's growing use of computers and the internet a whole new world know has cyberspace has taken shape. ... Computers and the internet are merely tools to access this median between users and the massive amounts of information available. ... It is quite cheap and fairly easy to accumulate thorough information about people because of the advances in computer technology. ... Even though it may seem immediate, an e-mail message travels from ones computer to several computer hosts across the world before finally reaching its destination. ... But what is the code of ethics used by th...

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Hackers are not criminal minded teenagers, who enjoy causing havoc by crashing computer system, but are people who want their ethics and motivation to be understood and viewed as legitimate. ... These are mainly adolescent males who get a kick out of breaking into computers and phreaking the phone system. ... This clause criminalizes less serious forms of computer cracking that have been overlooked in the past." ... "Hackers gave us the Apple computer. ... A hacker is someone who will seek out security flaws or holes in a computer or telephone system. ...

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It made the rounds on facebook a while ago, and it laments, in the form of voiceover poetry and a montage of various shots of people using their phones and computers, the fact that teenagers never seem to look up from their phones. ... A young girl educating herself on the ethics of the fashion industry. ...

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