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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

LAWS , ETHICS and COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

LAW
 
    A system of rules a society sets to maintain order and protect harm to persons and property. Law is ancient, dating back at least to the Code of Hammurabi, written by an ancient Babylonian king around 1760 BC. Today, most countries have tens or hundreds of thousands of pages of law. Laws are enforced by the police, supported by the court and prison systems. Laws are written by legislators, such as senators or congressmen. In America and many other countries, laws must uphold and not contradict the Constitution, a document outlining the most basic rules of the country.
    Aside from law being a set of rules, the word also refers to the law as practiced by lawyers, who either prosecute or defend a client from an accusation of violating the law. Becoming a lawyer requires attending law school and passing a bar exam. This entitles the lawyer to a law license. Only lawyers with a lawlaw. license are allowed to practice
    There are many categories of law. These include contract law, property law, trust law, tort law, criminal law, constitutional law, administrative law, and international law. Each of these sets the rules for a distinct area of human activity. Without laws, there is lawlessness, which historically has led to a general breakdown in society, sometimes to the point of a near-standstill in the economy. Those that advocate the abolition of all laws are called anarchists.

                 ETHICS

    Ethics is the branch of study dealing with what is the proper course of action for man. It answers the question, "What do I do?" It is the study of right and wrong in human endeavors. At a more fundamental level, it is the method by which we categorize our values and pursue them. Do we pursue our own happiness, or do we sacrifice ourselves to a greater cause? Is that foundation of ethics based on the Bible, or on the very nature of man himself, or neither?
   
             COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
                     

     Computer Technology refers to the design, construction and programming of computers.A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations




THE RELATIONSHIP OF LAW, ETHICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

The law is the implementation of ethics, protects individual rights, protects ethical values of the society. Law is also the floor to ethics. When you obey the law, you've done the right thing to do. So when you apply law and ethics to computer technology, it is up to you on how you will deal with the personal information you've acquired in the computer. If you do it for bad things, you will suffer the consequences of what you've done