Unethical IT

The developing of digital world and Information Communication Technology (ICT) had come out with so many of ethical issues. What I am going to share with you here is several of unethical issues regarding to the ICT.

Before I go through the example of unethical issues in ICT, let me explain to you about what is the unethical doings in ICT. Unethical doing is concerned on an act or rule which is morally wrong. To make it clear, let me share with you several examples of unethical issues which are related to ICT. First example is plagiarism. Plagiarism means using someone intellectual property such as ideas and written works and claim that ideas is yours. Students always do the plagiarism by copy and paste in order to accomplish their assignments or thesis. However, there are also sites which provide and sell college-level papers for those who are lazy and desperate students.

Second example pertaining to ICT is exploitation E-learning to obtain illegimate grades. There are some cases outsourcing the school project which on legislative side, violates piracy nor piracy laws. The websites like essaychief.com and essayadepts.com are attempt to sell academic papers to tertiary students.

Third example for unethical issue is Libel. Libel is the publication of a false statement that injuries one’s business or personal reputation. Nowadays, in Malaysia, there are a lot of bloggers. Many people thought that they are free to say anything in their blogs such as several cases of bloggers who had been arrest due to the libel action. As we can see, Adeeba who is arrested under investigation.

Fourth example for unethical issue is software piracy. Software piracy is refer to act that install a copy software into your computer. This is because most computer software are copyright. Beside that, if you purchase commercial software, you are purchasing a software license.

Plagiarism, libel and software piracy are unethical issues. How about downloading music, picture and videos? Actually, its also unethical act in ICT. Because you are taking royalties away from copyright holders.

So, after this if you want to do something that is unethical, you must think twice. Here we want to share with you several guidelines to avoid all the unethical act on ICT:

1. do not use computer to harm other people
2. do not use other people’s computer and ideas without authorization compensation.
3. do think about the consequences of the everything you written in your blog.