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Issues in a project computing ethics

...... Legally, the chief development officer of the information system design firm would not be held legally responsible for the complianceor lack thereofof the client company to the Freedom of Information Act, and indeed no person can be held individually responsible for the failure to produce requested information (FOIA 1996). Though the company has already suggested intentions that are outright illegal according to the law itself, it is not immediately clear that the chief development officer or the design company would be breaking the law by complying with the clients request. Foreknowledge of a crime to be committed, however, should be ample dissuasion from such action
Ethical Concerns
Decisions regarding how to store data, how much information to store, and when it is permissible to delete or alter existing datawith or without a notation commenting on such deletion or notationrepresent some of the most common and at times most extreme ethical dilemmas faced by information technology professionals (Worthington 2005). The ability to control and manipulate information is, as noted above, intimately related to decision making power and power in general, and thus it can be a highly sensitive and highly controversial issue. Certain ethical guidelines and principles have been established