Ethical-Legal Matrix
While
illegal activities are clearly defined in the law, ethical activities a
harder to categorise because they depend not only on our own value
system but also on the value system of the society in which we live.
For instance, some activities may be unethical but legal. One way to
think about it is to use the Ethical-Legal Matrix below.
| Ethical | Unethical |
| Legal | LE | LU |
| Illegal | IE | IU |
Use the Ethical-LegalMatrix below to answer the following questions.
What do you think about the following activities?
- Greenpeace protesters board a Japanese whaling ship.
- Unsolicited email advertising is sent to you by a business you have used.
- U.S.
authorities use the Patriot Act to monitor library borrowing records to
decide if borrowers, based on the books they have borrowed, are
potential terrorists.
- Someone creates a virus program.
- A 13 year old is left at home by himself or herself.
- You pay to download music and then pass it on to other people.
- Someone creates and disseminates a virus program that destroys information on the computers it infects.
- Cyber-slacking.
- Someone creates and disseminates a virus program that displays a ‘smiley face’ ☺ on the computers it infects when people log on.
- Your personal information is only used for the purpose for which it was collected
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