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There are various ways of answering this question, but the answershould include something about the application of ethics to the new capabilities and cultural norms brought about by information technology.
I fully agree with your answer MR Rehan Qureshi...Thanks.
The importance of ethics in business. Ethics concern an individual's moral judgements about right and wrong. ... Ethical behaviour and corporate social responsibility can bring significant benefits to a business. For example, they may: attract customers to the firm's products, thereby boosting sales and profits.
Information ethics is the branch of ethics. Some of its major features is that it focuses on the relationship between the creation, organization, dissemination, and use of information, and the ethical standards and moral codes governing human conduct in society.
Ethics has been a growing concern within the Information Systems (IS) community for years. A variety of authors, both academic and practitioner, have encouraged IS professionals to “do the right thing” when it comes to the ethics of information and technology.
Information ethics is a field of applied ethics that addresses the uses and abuses of information, information technology, and information systems for personal, professional, and public decision making. For example, is it okay to download someone else's intellectual property like pictures or music? Should librarians ever remove controversial books from the shelves or monitor users' Internet searching? Should a scientist post the genome for the Ebola virus on the Internet?
Information ethics provides a framework for critical reflection on the creation, control, and use of information. It raises questions about information ownership and access to intellectual property, the rights of people to read and to explore the World Wide Web as they choose. Information ethicists explore and evaluate the development of moral values, the creation of new power structures, information myths, and the resolution of ethical conflicts in the information society
To bring a new theories and applications to research domain with respect of all authors rights and without falsification of data or violation of informations of others
Information systems ethics mean ethical guides or ethical rules for the organization that should be updating depends on the new information systems and the organization requirement.
Information systems ethics means the rules and regulations, policies, business motives and agenda of the organizations to circulate as well as known to the employees and should give their hundred percent effort to fulfill the objectives of the organization.
Information ethics has been defined as "the branch of ethics that focuses on the relationship between the creation, organization, dissemination, and use of information, and the ethical standards and moral codes governing human conduct in society".