Ethical Implication of Information Technology Print
Written by Hadwi Soendjojo   
Monday, 04 August 2008

Ethics in computer usage needed big attention more than before. General community give attention because of the awareness that computer could disturb individual privilege.

Computer ethics is deeper than privilege and hacking matters because computer is a powerful social tool that could help or disturb the community in many ways, depends on the way of using. Computer ethic will consider social effect of computer in ethical context, which is how computer should use for the goodness and the development of community. When endure daily life, community is directed by many influences. As community citizen that have social awareness, then community have to do the right things according to moral, ethic, and law.

What is Moral? 

Moral is belief tradition about the right and wrong behavior. Moral is social institution with a history and list of rules. Human has started learn the rules from moral behavior since child.

When man grow and mature physically and mentally, man will learn rules that community wished to follow. This behavior rules is human moral. Even many communities don’t follow a same set of moral, there is basic strong uniformity. “Do what the right according to moral” is a base of human social behavior.

What is Ethics? 

Human act is also directed by ethics, a set of belief, standard, or thinks that fill an individual, group or community. All individual responsible to community upon his behavior; community can be a city, country, or profession.

Not like moral, ethics could very different from one community to other community. This could be seen in difference of software hijacking, software that copied illegally, then used or sold.

What is Law? 

Law is formal rule of behavior which forced by government to citizen. Right now, there is still a few of law which regulating computer usage, because computer is new fast growing technology, so the law system meet difficulty to follow it.



 
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