Ethics_in_the_Age_of_Information

Ethics in the Age of Information Ethics in the Age of Information The information age is the age we live in today, and with the information age comes an age of ethics. When we deal with the new technologies introduced every day, we need to decide what we must consider ethical and unethical. We must consider all factors so that the use of the information readily available to many persons is not abused. "Information technology will be the most fundamental area of ethical concern for business in the next decade" (Houston 2). The most widely used tool of the information age is the computer, whether it be a PC or a network of computer systems. As we enter the information age the newness and power of information technologies tests the ethics of the average person, not just the criminal and causes thousands of computer crimes to be committed daily. The most common computer crime committed daily, some aware and many not, is the illegal sharing of computer software. Software is any of the programs used in operating a digital computer, as input and output programs, as defined by Funk and Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary. When you purchase computer computer, software, people, information, online, age, crime, unethical, hackers, ethics, computers, service, mcewen, justice, illegal, accounts, access, about, without, systems, schools, school, pirates, person, own, one, data, criminal, consider, account, online, information, young, work, times, time, system, studies, should, purchase, programs, program, policy, piracy, persons, parents, number