ETHICS AND ISSUE IN ICT

ETHICS AND ISSUE IN ICT

Definition Of Information Of Technology

            According to the Oxford Student’s Dictionary of current English for KBSM, information is facts or knowledge given. While technology is state in Macmillan English Dictionary for advanced learners as advanced scientific knowledge used for practical purpose. In other words, technology is advanced machines and equipment developed using technology. Therefore, information technology or well-known as IT is a combination of computer and communication that use to create, store, exchange and use information in many forms. Ethical is involving the principle used for deciding what is right and what is wrong. Most people these days involved in many ethical issues in information technology. It can be good impact or bad impact to the people especially in teenagers.

Factors Of Ethical Issues

            There are many factors of ethical issues in information technology view. It happens when individual influence by his or her friends. It happens when they always together in their works. As we know that, ethical issues could be good or bad. For examples of good point of ethical issues is search information or current issues. Meanwhile, bad is plagiarism, where he or she doing assignment that given by lecturer or teacher by copy and paste from the internet. Sometimes, friends can give benefits but sometimes it can destroy. Sometimes they help us to broaden our knowledge but sometimes we expose to illegal things like negative activities. 

Negative Effect Of Unethical Computer Users.

            Plagiarism is the example of unethical computer users. It is the serious problem in computer ethics because they will give the negative impact to information technology field specially. Actually, plagiarism is that the use of someone else’s intellectual property includes their ideas or written book. As a student, we will get trouble if plagiarize someone else idea. For instance, students that who are detected as plagiarize thrown out of school or colleges. Futhermore, even if the student plagiarism action’s discovered after finish the study, it will influence negatively our degree and damage the career. In addition, it is give negative impact to who are owns the ideas that copied illegally by someone else. For example, they cannot get income that how much they actually should get because their own ideas or work are sold illegally by someone else.