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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.
A PROGRAMMER WAS MOONLIGHTING TO SELL A PROGRAM OF HIS
EMPLOYER that was no longer used.
A PROGRAMMER USED IDLE company computer time for his
personal race track program on Sundays.
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.
A PROGRAMMER IN A BANK MADE UNAUTHORIZED CHANGES in
a program to ignore scrutiny of his own account at the
bank.
A PROGRAMMER TERMINATED EMPLOYMENT AND TOOK A COPY of
his employer's program and documentation and provided
these for use by his new employer.
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.