Ethical issues connected with use of the Internet
Since the explosive growth of the internet in the 90’s and the impact it causes on economy, business sector, educational establishment and individuals. Internet becomes a daily part of our lives. For students, this is a fountain of knowledge. You could find almost anything and everything on it. For business sector, it becomes a main source of communication and transactions. Internet closed the gap of distance communication. Everybody can talk to anybody and to anywhere, boundaries are not barriers anymore. But with all the good things the internet brought, there is always a string attach. Ethical issues are one of them.
Every profession has ethical conduct or ethical standards on how an individual should perform accordingly. Ethics on using internet is a big question? Does the internet needs ethical standards? Maybe YES? But how the authorities will enforce it?
It is obvious that internet is full of unethical issues, pornography, violence, different kinds of hacking, copyright issues on software’s and music’s downloads. It is easy to publish a website, videos, and downloads different stuff on the internet without passing to any standard checks. What are the acceptable use of the Internet , E-Mail/Messages and Peer-to-Peer usage?
E - Security
With the rapid growth of e-commerce, government and corporate agencies are taking extra precautions when it comes to protecting their information. The development of e-security enabled organisations to discover a wide order of similarities between attacks occurring across their security environment and develop appropriate countermeasures. To improve the security of information, there is a need to form a concept of relationships between e-security and the major elements involved in the infrastructure. Organisations should act in an ethical manner, especially when it comes to e-security and e-privacy policies, procedures, and practices. The consequence concept is used to help organisations on how to develop better and secured information in an information-sharing and globally networked environment.
