Questions of Ethics In Computer Systems and Their Future
1) Identify and discuss security issues and considerations evident for
Information Systems
And computerization in the brokerage industry. ( Think about how the
Internet has
already influenced trading.)
"The technology is getting ahead of regulators" claims David Weissman,
director of money and technology at Forrester Research Inc., in Cambridge, Mass.
If one is to believe the quote above it sounds very ominous for the
regulators and the government to attempt to even bring this media under any kind
of regulation. But, what is it that they the government agencies truly are
looking to regulate? If you take to the argument that this media, the Internet
is truly a public access network, then the control to which they would like to
extend to it would be the most regulated public access system in history. What I
believe the attempt here is to regulate through censorship. Since it is almost
impossible to censor the phone networks without actually eaves dropping on your
phone, they have decided to regulate and censor your written word. The danger in
this is what you write as an opinion may be construed by that government
regulator as a violation of some regulatory act. The flip side to this is if you
did this through another medium such as the phone system nothing would ever come
it. The bigger question here is how much government do people want in there
lives? The Internet was brought into the picture for the public as the next
great technology of this century. It is without a doubt as big if not bigger
than any other public means of communication that has ...