Businesses and individuals must be aware of the information security and ethical issues that come together with their dependence and frequent use of information systems.
Not knowing or caring about these issues may bring about loss of confidential information and lasting damage to their business reputation. In this post, you will talk about the following:
1) Think of 2 to 3 ways in which businesses may violate privacy or ethical rights without realizing it.
2) How can the violations mentioned in the previous question be avoided or minimized ?
1) Unsolicited commercial e-mail (Spam), Cookies and Opt-out model may violate privacy or ethical rights without realizing it.
回覆刪除Spam – Businesses sending out thousands and even hundreds of thousands of unsolicited commercial e-mails for advertisement their promotion.
Cookies – When you visit some web site, the web server will request the cookie from your computer to identify the visitor. Your personal information will be saved at web server.
Opt-out model – When you sign up for a member account in some web site (e.g. forum, Blog, photo album), they can collect/use personal information until the consumer specifically requests that the data not be collected.
2) Spam – You may not receive Spam by filter setting of Anti-Spam when you using yahoo mail or other e-mail software.
Cookies – You can adjust the internet privacy policy setting in your Microsoft windows to block all Cookies. After this, all web site may not request cookies from your computer when you visit any web site.
Opt-out model – When you sign up for a member account, uncheck the options boxes about any marketing communications offers.