Computing and Ethics
Computing and Ethics
Personal Memo
Name-Akshit Awasthi
Class-9th
Section-D
Roll No-5
Topic-Computing and Ethics
School-City Montessori School, L.D.A
Index
S.No.
Topic
Page No.
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Computer Ethics
Software Ethics
Major Ethical Issues
Individuals Right to Privacy
Intellectual Property Rights
Accuracy of Information
Hacking and Piracy
Software Piracy
Getting Protected
Protective Measures
Securing Data
Preventive Measures &
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Computer Crime
Reasons for Computer Crimes
Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
Acknowledgement
I feel privileged in expressing my most sincere regards and utmost gratitude to my esteemed teacher, guide Roy Sir, a scholar of the highest order, and professional par excellence who inspired me constantly in my work and completion of this project and without whose guidance this project would have not seen the light of the day.
I express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Vineeta Kamran madam, Principal, City Montessori School (C.M.S), Kanpur Road, Lucknow, India for extremely valuable guidance and unflinching support extended to me during difficult part of my dissertation.
I also take this opportunity to thank all my family members, who always helped me in fulfilling all the requirements I had for this task
I also express my sincere gratitude to all my friends who co-operated outstandingly in collecting all the data required for this project, which could have not been completed without their contributions.
I am sincerely grateful to Google for all the matter of Computing Ethics.
Date-12th May, 2006
Akshit
Introduction
Ethics play an important role in our life-styles and ways of doing things. In general we may define ethics as the field of study that is concerned with questions of value. i.e. making judgments about “good” or “Bad” behavior in any given situation. The standards, values, morals, principles, etc. make ethics that guide ones decisions or actions on- generally when there is no clear “right” or “wrong” answer. For example, how would you decide whether a person should live or die when he/she is suffering from an un-curable disease?
Ethics guide ones behavior in every field of life, whether business, education, social behavior or using computers. This project is dedicated to various issues related to computers, computing & ethics. But before discussing these issues, let us know first about what computer ethics mean.
Computer Ethics
Computers are special technology and they raise some special ethical issues. In this essay I will