Other Than An Ethic To “obe The Law”, There Is No Need For Computer Professionals To Hold Any Other Ethical Values Associated With Their Knowledge And Skills In Computer And Information Technology. Discuss

Other than an ethic to “obey the law”, there is no need for computer professionals to hold any other ethical values associated with their knowledge and skills in computer and Information Technology. Discuss

As essence of life, most things in society have their rules. And people follow those rules so do rights things. Information Technology (IT) field is not an exception, it also has its law, whoever from professional to employee in IT field does things exceeding of limited law that they will be accused. Moreover, ethical values in IT such as privacy, accuracy, property, accessibility play an important role in associating with their knowledge and skills. Because ethical values are the target/standard so people make products or services in the right way for users, especially in internet environment nowadays. On the other hand, professional or employee in IT filed can make influences to users such as privacy, piracy.

Computer professionals can make products or services that can reflect to privacy of users. As we know that privacy of anyone is the most important – it could be information of people about their work, their business and even their life. I was wondering that if computer professionals break the rules and make products or services that they would not keep the privacy of users so users would be influenced. For example, at this moment we might hear some information about Google earth service of Google Company that people complained a lot about it because this service exceed limitation in exploring information. More specifically, people lay in their house to expose to the sun that their privacy and images showed to other people. And some army areas are with panels of restriction by taking photos or record video also were showed by this service. Moreover, it is dangerous when some people overuse in using these kinds of information and image.

And until now, this topic still is a matter of controversy. Although there some justifications from Google most...