Cyberethic

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Cyberethics

With the explosion of the technology age, information management is at a crucial state. Technology's rapid advances have given us the tools to employ new forms of information collection and distribution. However, one vital detail has been left by the wayside—ethics. More importantly, it is Cyberethics that individuals in the IS and IT professions should give more attention to. Cyberethics is the guidelines by which information and information systems should be managed. Accuracy, accountability, accessibility, and privacy are the cornerstones by which cyberethics was created. And it is not for lack of trying that these issues have become an afterthought. The main culprit is technology itself. Industries and businesses alike have spent more time and resources implementing methods to store and manipulate information that they've neglected to examine what the information truly is. An established code of ethics increases the chances that data management is sound.

Because information is such an important asset, it should be imperative that ethics be implemented sooner than later. For instance, the accuracy of data should be a key component of all data management. In the medical field, the health of millions of people relies on accurate data. Doctors make choices based on a person's health or family history. Hospitals can only assume that drugs and labels match. However, suppose that a drug was mislabeled or a patient's diagnosis was misinterpreted. Inaccuracies such as these cost people their lives, and hospitals money. In the end, this financial burden is passed on to all consumers of medical health. Cyberethics will not prevent all mistakes, but may lessen the chances that inaccuracies will occur.

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