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- Computer Ethics Issues: Privacy and Intellectual
- Property Rights:
- A PROGRAMMER's MANAGEMENT THREATENED HIM WITH SANCTIONS
- because he was convinced that a system did not protect
- confidentiality of medical data and complained about
- this deficiency. He felt that he owed loyalty to the
- public instead of to his employer.
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- A PROGRAMMER WAS MOONLIGHTING TO SELL A PROGRAM OF HIS
- EMPLOYER that was no longer used.
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- A PROGRAMMER USED IDLE company computer time for his
- personal race track program on Sundays.
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- A POLITICIAN AND SYSTEMS ANALYST CONSPIRED to make a
- computer model and simulation produce desired results.
- This was easy to do because some data parameters could
- not be accurately determined and could vary depending
- on the source for this data. Therefore, there was little
- difficulty in skewing the results to support the
- politicians' point of view.
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- A PROGRAMMER IN A BANK MADE UNAUTHORIZED CHANGES in
- a program to ignore scrutiny of his own account at the
- bank.
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- A PROGRAMMER TERMINATED EMPLOYMENT AND TOOK A COPY of
- his employer's program and documentation and provided
- these for use by his new employer.
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- A PROGRAMMER purchased and paid for time sharing
- services from a competing company. He DOWNLOADED COPIES
- of data, programs, and utilities from other users. He
- justified this because there were no technical limit-
- ations placed on him to prevent him from doing these
- things.