Discuss the ethical and values issues related to databases, with a particular fo
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Discuss the ethical and values issues related to databases, with a particular focus on privacy. The following questions offer ways to address pieces of this larger question.
What do we mean by privacy?
How does our society define privacy?
How do other societies define privacy?
How much real business data (live and archived) should programmers be able to see?
How can a business balance restricting access with the need to have programmers who have access on a production system?
What sort of pre-hire (or pre-transfer) screening should be done on database developers who will be able to access business data?
How can the accuracy of information be promoted?
Who owns the data an organization collects?
What rights does the organization have to the data? (can it be shared or sold? can it be used for purposes other than those for which it was collected?)
What responsibility does the organization have? (must it keep the data up to date? must it inform the person of what data it is collecting?)
What rights does an individual have to the data an organization collects? (does the individual have a right to see the data? does the individual have a right to forbid some uses?)
Explanation / Answer
What do we mean by privacy?
Hiding the data from others.
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How does our society define privacy?
Our society defines privacy, hiding data which is not good and it makes loss to society.
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How do other societies define privacy?
In terms of other societies, privacy means, data which individual person doesn't want to share among themselves.
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How much real business data (live and archived) should programmers be able to see?
In real live, the data hides from users , they can use but they can't see implementation.
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How can a business balance restricting access with the need to have programmers who have access on a production system?
By setting permissions, adminstrator can restrict to access to some files. Some of them can only read, but they didn't have permissions to write and delte files. They use database restrictions.
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What sort of pre-hire (or pre-transfer) screening should be done on database developers who will be able to access business data?
They have been asked for different sql queries and types how to restrict users and their syntaxes.
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How can the accuracy of information be promoted?
By maintaining data with secrecy and hiding data from implementation, accuracy can be promoted since only few can modify.
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Who owns the data an organization collects?
Data Administrator
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What rights does the organization have to the data? (can it be shared or sold? can it be used for purposes other than those for which it was collected?)
Good organization never share data.. they share binary converted application data
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What responsibility does the organization have? (must it keep the data up to date? must it inform the person of what data it is collecting?)
Yes they have maintain data, update date day to day. Handle servers when multiple users connected to access application.
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What rights does an individual have to the data an organization collects? (does the individual have a right to see the data? does the individual have a right to forbid some uses?)
No every individual doesn't have rights to see the code. Company will have copy rights. If any one try to see the code without prior intimatio it results to offense.
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