Companies, Ethics, and Privacy of Personal Information

Introduction Personal data is rapidly becoming a product in today's high-tech world. This information is used by banks, investment companies, securities companies, credit card merchants, government agencies (municipalities, states, and federal), and consumer goods-based companies. Most people may not know the amount of information shared among companies or the frequency with which companies are executed. Many companies will sell and share customer data to support product sales and find out what new products to produce.

Information systems and technologies have many ethical issues. We will focus on four areas: privacy, accuracy, wealth and access. Privacy means holding personal information with your own hands or your own hands. If people do not have privacy, people always want to maintain a certain level of personal space, so they may feel intimidated and infringed. Companies use information systems to track down what's going on in the business and dramatically reduce people's privacy to ensure that people do what they want in the company's time. Companies have some way to accomplish this by recording employee information. (Lapa, 2003)

Privacy of Information Privacy Personal information related to the student's name and data stored in the computer system is called information privacy. Information privacy relates to the privacy of personal data collected by various organizations for personal use. Personal information can be stored in medical records, political records, criminal records, financial data, website data, or business related information that needs to be kept protected.

In addition to personal information the company collects in various ways, e-mail privacy is also a controversial issue. E-mail interception is prohibited by external third parties in the 1986 Electronic Communication Privacy Protection Act (ECPA) (extracted from "Personal ethical beliefs in business ethics and recognition of e-mail privacy") . However, the law applies only to external e-mails, and e-mail within the company's system is not protected. According to "Email Privacy myth" in "Property" dated February 3, 1997, most of the company 's system network preserves mail backups through the system. Deleting a message does not make any sense. The content of the message is open to others without permission. Therefore, we can not disclose information according to user's request.