ETHICS AND
PROFESSIONALISM of ET
Chapter 6
Learning Outcomes
After accomplishing this chapter, you should be able to
● Distinguish the link between ethics and technology
● Explain general, professional and leadership ethical questions
● Explain what digital privacy is, its components and why it is important
● Discuss the importance of accountability and trust in emerging
technologies
● Identify the threats and challenges we face in developing and utilizing
emerging technologies
Technology and ethics
Technology along with its plethora of uses also has some problems or issues
Privacy violations
Spam and viruses
Basic principles
The code for professional ethics is based upon five principles
Integrity
Objectivity
Competency and due care
Confidentiality
Professional behavior
Emerging Ethical Issues
Discriminatory outcomes due to biased input data
Personalization
the impact of tailoring decisions very specifically to individuals, based on
preferences, activities and other features
How much reliance can we place on data and models?
What is the role of human judgment?
How do we ensure that we understand the decision-making process?
General ethical principles
Contribute to society and to human well-being, acknowledging that all people
are stakeholders in computing
Avoid harm
Be honest and trustworthy
Be fair and take action not to discriminate
General ethical principles
Respect the work required to produce new ideas, inventions, creative works,
and computing artifacts
Respect privacy
Honor confidentiality
Digital privacy
Digital Privacy is the protection of personally identifiable or business
identifiable information that is collected from respondents through
information collection activities or from other sources
It encompasses three sub-related categories;
information privacy, communication privacy, and individual privacy
Information Privacy
Information privacy is the notion that individuals should have the freedom,
or right, to determine how their digital information, mainly that pertaining
to personally identifiable information, is collected and used
Communication Privacy
Communication privacy is the notion that individuals should have the
freedom, or right, to communicate information digitally with the
expectation that their communications are secure; meaning that
messages and communications will only be accessible to the sender's original
intended recipient
Individual Privacy
individual privacy is the notion that individuals have a right to exist freely
on the internet, in that they can choose what types of information they
are exposed to, and more importantly that unwanted information should
not interrupt them
Some digital privacy principles
Data Minimization
Collect the minimal amount of information necessary from individuals
and businesses consistent with the Department’s mission and legal
requirements
Transparency
Notice covering the purpose of the collection and use of identifiable
information will be provided in a clear manner
Some digital privacy principles
Accuracy
Information collected will be maintained in a sufficiently accurate, timely,
and complete manner to ensure that the interests of the individuals and
businesses are protected.
Security
Adequate physical and IT security measures will be implemented to
ensure that the collection, use, and maintenance of identifiable
information are properly safeguarded and the information is promptly
destroyed in accordance with approved records control schedules
Treats
Security
Bodily injury and property damage, privacy invasion from emerging
technologies such as
Wearables, driverless cars, drones, IoT devices ...
Challenges
Challenges in using Artificial Intelligence
Bias in data leads to biased prediction
AI replacing human workers
Challenges in using Robotics in manufacturing
humans losing jobs
ethical and cybersecurity concerns
Challenges
Challenges in using the Internet of Things
Issues of handling huge amount of data
Issues of security implications of mass connectivity
Challenges in Big Data
Challenges of spotting trends and analyzing impacts from huge amount of
data
