Computer Ethics

 

To know what computer ethics is , we first need to define what ethics are

The set of accepted rules that regulate the usage of computers is known as computer ethics. Computer ethics, like ethics more generally, is fundamentally a set of philosophical rules or moral principles intended to guide behavior and stop harm.

The history of computer ethics

When MIT professor Norbert Wiener foresaw huge social and ethical implications for the cybernetics technology he was helping to create during the Second World War, computer ethics first gained notoriety.

                                                                                                                                      Following are few concerns and considerations related computer ethics.

• Computer crime
• Privacy and security
• Intellectual property

Computer Crime

Threats like cyber crime change as quickly as new technologies do. Cyber-criminals and hackers can steal money and data, conduct fraud, trade in illicit content and intellectual property, steal identities, and more via hacking, malware, viruses, worms, phishing, Trojan horses, and other techniques.

Privacy And Security

Online information privacy, information ethics, and digital security can all be very essential to people. Threats do exist, though, from businesses that covertly monitor and sell internet activities to individuals that dox others and engage in cyber-bullying.

Intellectual Property

Online theft, or the unauthorized sharing of digital content, copyrighted content, and intellectual property, is a problem that affects everything from software and cutting-edge goods to works of art and entertainment media.