I N T E R N E T

PRESENTED BY:DAYA NAND-10

E T H I C S

What Is Ethics?
Ethics are standards of moral

conduct
Standards of right and wrong behavior A gauge of personal integrity The basis of trust and cooperation in

relationships with others

Ethical Principals
Ethical principals are tools which are used to think

through difficult situations. Three useful ethical principals:

An act is ethical if all of society benefits from the act.
An act is ethical if people are treated as an end and not

as a means to an end. An act is ethical if it is fair to all parties involved.

Computer Crime
Computer criminals -using a computer to commit an illegal act Who are computer criminals? Employees disgruntled or dishonest --the largest category Outside users - customers or suppliers Hackers and crackers - hackers do it for fun but crackers have malicious intent Organized crime - tracking illegal enterprises, forgery, counterfeiting

Types of Computer Crime

Damage to computers, programs or files Viruses - migrate through systems attached to files and programs Worms - continuously self-replicate Theft Of hardware, software, data, computer time Software piracy - unauthorized copies of copyrighted material View/Manipulation Unauthorized entry and harmless message still illegal

General Internet Issues

Inflammatory interchange of messages via internet

(email, chat rooms, etc.)

Virus warning hoaxes

Spam unsolicited, bulk email

Etc.

Information Ownership Issues

Illegal software copying (pirating) Infringement of copyrights by copying of pictures

or text from web pages

Plagiarism by copying text from other sources when original work is expected

Ethics of Internet Users

False information Users going on websites and posting information that is not true. Wikipedia Downloading Users downloading music, movies or softer ware for there own personal use. limewire , Kasa

Ethics of Internet Users

Privacy User posting pictures and videos of friends and family on websites Myspace, Facebook and Youtube

Computer Abuse Computer Crimes

Users hacking in to personal information and taking identities of people. stealing a username and password creating or releasing a malicious computer program virus

Ethics of Internet Service Provider (ISP)

A company or organization that supplies Internet connectivity

to home and/or business customers is called ISP.

ISPs policies concerns, 'cookies,' third party sites and access,

collection of personal information - what, how and usage, security of information, regulation of children's access to the Internet, globalization issues and legal issues.

What range of service does Internet provide

The main forms of content are: E-mail Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Usenet newsgroups The World Wide Web

Types of activities which are taking place on the Net

Communications, previously through e-mail, but

increasingly through telephony using the Internet Protocol (IP) networks The provision of information whether through data bases to which access is normally limited or through Web sites which are open to all Internet users with a suitable browser E-commerce whether it is business to customer (B2C) or currently four times the size business to business (B2B) E-Government whereby Government departments interact with citizens, from the simple provision of information to the completion of forms, through to various transactions

 So, to use these services effectively Ethics should be

followed by everyone.

Major problems in applying a sense of ethics to cyberspace

Jurisdictional competence Technological complexities

The geeks vs. the suits

Populist campaigns

Solutions
Modernization of laws
More high tech crime fighters Note and take down mechanisms

Labeling and filtering

Walled gardens Better supervision of children

CONCLUSIONS
Some final thoughts about the Internet and ethics: So, ethics basically comes into play when some kind of

crime is involved at any level. Technologies, laws, supervision can prevent us to some extent but cant stop us completely. It is a difference in values which can and should be resolved by education and debate.