ITM 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Codie Award, Carpal Tunnel, Intangible Property

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 100
• Professor: Robert Hudyma

Document Summary

Five moral dimensions of the information age: information rights and obligations, property rights and obligations, accountability and control, system quality, quality of life. Data storage techniques: provides ability for large firms to identify customers through violating their privacy inexpensively. Data analysis techniques: allows companies and government agencies to attain personal and detailed data of an individual. Profiling: the use of computers to combine data form multiple sources and create electronic dossiers of detailed information on individuals. Non-obvious relationship awareness (nora): a new data analysis technology that gathers information about people from various sources, provide detailed pictures of activities and associations for government and private sectors. Responsibility: a key element of ethical action, ability to accept duties, obligations and costs. Accountability: a feature of systems and social institutions, mechanism that determines who"s responsible for actions taken. Liability: extends concept of responsibility further to the area of laws.