For this assignment, you will research an issue related to information technology ethics. You may want to select a topic you feel will have an impact on your professional life. Your paper will be a minimum of three pages long (not including a title page, table of contents, and reference page). You must have a minimum of three references, cited using current APA guidelines. Papers that do not meet these requirements will receive point deductions.
Report Requirements
- Evaluate an issue related to cyberethics.
- Evaluate the implications of ethical issues for people and for technological practices.
- Demonstrate effective communication of facts, research, analyses, and opinions regarding issues in information technology ethics.
- Follow APA style and format guidelines for resources and citations, and create a document that is clearly written and generally free of grammatical errors.
Please refer to the Research Report on IT Ethics Scoring Guide for more information on how you will be graded.
Potential Topics
There are many options to pursue. Here are some possibilities:
- Access or digital divide.
- Legal liability or accountability.
- The importance of an organizational code of ethics.
- Fair information practice principles.
- Privacy protection.
- Electronic medical records/HIPAA.
- Copyrights.
- The role of cookies.
- Data mining, property rights.
- Hackers and hacking.
- Criminal behavior on the Internet.
- Global issues.
- Policy approaches (for example, privacy policies or employer policies related to cyberethics).
- Social implications and social values.
- Laws and the legal system pertaining to IT.
- Whistle-blowing.
- Workplace monitoring.
- Viruses.
- Social networks.
- BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).
- Biometric technology.
- Social media issues.
- You may want to choose a current topic that is trending in IT.