16.2 Ethical Issues in Information Technology
People in modern societies use the Internet daily for a variety of applications, including education, shopping, entertainment, socializing, banking, paying taxes, and contributing content on sites such as wikipedia.org. In addition to being both producers and consumers of online data as ordinary citizens, database designers, system and application developers, and users and analysts are responsible for managing information technology and providing stewardship for data. Information technology encompasses both software and hardware devices that are used to create, store, retrieve, modify, and disseminate data. The rapid pace of emerging technologies and applications, the generation of big data (discussed ...
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