Ethics, Privacy, & Safety

Source: Ethics in Computing

How do People Learn to Engage in Ethical Behavior?

• A recognition that an action has caused harm

• Social disapproval

• Punishment by authority

Source: Computer Ethics, Etiquette & Safety

Information and communication technologies affect ethical behavior

• Technology does not provide tangible feedback

• Technology allows us to become invisible

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Eight Ethical Decision-Making Strategies

• Golden Rule Test• Trusted Adult Test• Is There a Rule?

Test• Front Page Test

• If Everybody Did It Test

• Real World Test• Gandhi Test• Check Inside Test

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Universal Rationalizations

• The finger of blame (“She started it…”)• Follow the crowd (“Everyone does it…”)• If I only had a brain (“He told me to…”)• No harm no foul (“Nobody got hurt”)• It’s only a little bit wrong…• Good intentions (“It’s for a good cause…”)• “No one ever gets caught…”• “Things have changed…”

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What Can You Do?

• Play by the Rules• Keep It Private• Look Your Best• Don’t Pollute• Remain Cool Under

Fire• Read with Your Eyes

Open

• Credit the Source• Respect the Creator• Watch Where You are

Looking• Don’t Take Candy

from Strangers• Don’t Go Where You

Don’t Belong

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Web Resources

• CyberEthics– CyberSmart Curriculum– Copyright– Computer Virus Myths, Hoaxes, Urban Legen

ds, Hysteria

• Cyberethics, Cybersecurity and Cybersafety

The Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics

1. Thou shalt not use a computer to harm other people. 2. Thou shalt not interfere with other people's computer work. 3. Thou shalt not snoop around in other people's computer

files. 4. Thou shalt not use a computer to steal. 5. Thou shalt not use a computer to bear false witness. 6. Thou shalt not copy or use proprietary software for which

you have not paid. 7. Thou shalt not use other people's computer resources

without authorization or proper compensation. 8. Thou shalt not appropriate other people's intellectual output. 9. Thou shalt think about the social consequences of the

program you are writing or the system you are designing. 10.Thou shalt always use a computer in ways that ensure

consideration and respect for your fellow humans.

Computer Ethics InstituteA project of the Brookings Institution

http://www.brook.edu/its/cei/cei_hp.htm

What About Privacy?

• Computer Safety• Secure e-mail• Identity Theft• Credit Reports• Spam Filters• Anti-Virus• Spyware Removal

• Privacy Software• Ad Blockers• Firewalls• Encryption• Parental Control• Key Loggers• Privacy Fence

Web Resources

• Protecting your Privacy on the Internet

• Internet Privacy Resources

Let’s Stop and Play…

• Privacy Playground

• Cybersense and Nonsense

• Jo Cool or Jo Fool

Cyberbullies

• March 08, 2005 – USA Today• "Cyberbullies, mostly ages 9 to 14, are using the

anonymity of the Web to mete out pain without witnessing the consequences," reports USA Today.

• Half of 3,000 U.S. children surveyed the past six months said they or someone they know have been victims or guilty of cyberbullying, Wired Safety says.

• Bullying isn't just for large males. Now anyone, male or female, with minimal technical skills can get into the act. But victims still tend to be kids seen as "different."

Let’s explore…

• Quiz

• Think about this…

• Suggestions

Safety

• Playing It Safe

• Keeping Children Safer

• Surf Swell Island

• CyberNetiquette Comix

• GetNetWise

• SafeKids and SafeTeens

• Netsmartzkids.org

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.”

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