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You can have professional ethics, but you seldom hear about professional morals. Ethics tend to be codified into a formal system or set of rules which are explicitly adopted by a group of people. Thus you have medical ethics. Ethics are thus internally defined and adopted, whilst morals tend to be externally imposed on other people.

If you accuse someone of being unethical, it is equivalent of calling them unprofessional and may well be taken as a significant insult and perceived more personally than if you called them immoral (which of course they may also not like).

Dictionary.com defines ethics as:

A theory or a system of moral values: “An ethic of service is at war with a craving for gain"

The rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession.

Ethics of principled conviction asserts that intent is the most important factor. If you have good principles, then you will act ethically.

Ethics of responsibility challenges this, saying that you must understand the consequences of your decisions and actions and answer to these, not just your high-minded principles. The medical maxim 'do no harm', for example, is based in the outcome-oriented ethics of responsibility.

The Impact of Computer Technology

    Has computer technology enhanced our society or has it crippled our ability to function ethically?   Computer technology has affected the workplace and compromised our privacy leaving us exposed for unauthorized use of our personal identity.   Our world has become less ethical and it has become very difficult to trust or determine what is authentic.
    In today’s world we are totally living in a computerized world and we have lost the human element.   Many companies have transitioned their information totally to computers and software packages that has moved many people out of jobs.

   We are completely dependant on computers and our ability to do task on our own has become very limited.   Listening to music has become very difficult to appreciate today because of digital equipment that can enhance sound and give the impression of a great artist when indeed it is just the computer. Computer generated music takes away the authenticity of a musician.
  Technology is necessary but has it exposed and invaded our privacy? In our society most everything we do requires the use of personal information.   Our personal information in the hands of the wrong person could be detrimental.  
(http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Impact-Computer-Technology/178852)

Qoutes.. ü

"Have the courage to say no. have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. these are the magic keys to living your life with integrity". Peter Singer

"It is curious- curious that physical courage should be so common in the worlds, and moral courage so rare".

Albert Camus 

"We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards...the ethics of excellence". Prince Pritchett

"A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people." B. R. Ambedkar

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Chapter 3: PROTECTING PRIVACY:LAW AND REGULATIONS

CRITICISMS OF WARREN AND BRANDIES AND OS THOMPSON

• Critics of Warren and Brandies argue that their arguments do not provide a workable principle or definition form which to conclude that a privacy right violation occurs. 

• Critics of Thompson present examples in which a right (not just a desire for privacy), but no other right is violated. Her notion of the right to our person can be seen as a vague or too broad.

2 view points on the regulation of information about consumer transactions 

      The free-market view. The market view point respects he right and ability of consumers to make choices for themselves that are based on their own values.  

      The consumer -protection view. The focus of this viewpoint is to protect consumer against abuse by businesses and against their own lack of knowledge, judgment or interest.

Contracts and regulations

Contracts. Including freedom to form them and enforcement of their terms by the legal system- are a mechanism for implementing flexible and diverse economic transactions that take place over time and between people who don not know each other well or at all.

Regulations.  Is not perfect either we must evaluate regulatory solutions by considering effectiveness, cists and benefits, side effects and ease of use (clarity).