Professionalism and Ethics

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Professionalism and Ethics

• Database Course

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Ethics in Data

• Four primary areas
• Data Collection
• Data Retrieval
• Data Storage
• Database Model

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Data Collection Questions

• What data is collected?
• Who collects the data?
• Who enters the data?
• Who checks the validity of the data entered?

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Data Retrieval

• Who has what access to what data?
• How audits access?
• What reports are provided and to whom?
• Database Inference, SQL injection, e.g.

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Data Storage

• How long is the data kept?
• Who and how are corrections to data made?

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Database Model

• Are proper measures taken to insure the integrity
  of the data?
• Referential integrity
• Data entry checks
• Complexity of the database design
• Backup of data done frequently

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Legal Issues

• Who owns the data?
• Such as in your medical record
• Who is responsible for errors?
• What if your credit data is wrong?
• Who is liable for negative outcomes?
• Security breach in credit card company database?

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Article on Ethics

• http//www.informationweek.com/837/prdataethics.ht
  m

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CASE Studies

• Falsification of Data (selecting a product)
• Protection of Database Contents (suspect, e-mail
  lists)
• State of Oregon v. Randal Schwartz
• Dean of Divinity - Harvard
• Professional Responsibility and Accountability
  (if project doesnt meet specification engineer,
  programmer, salesmen)
• Security flaws in software. Is vendor responsible
  ?
• Medical Expert Systems ? Whos responsible ?
• XEROX PARC Apple - Microsoft

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CASE Studies

• HIPAA
• http//www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs8a-hipaa.htm4
• Example violations of HIPAA
• http//www.hipaaps.com/examples.html
• TD AmeriTrade
• http//www.scmagazineus.com/TD-Ameritrade-database
  -breach-an-inside-job/article/35666/

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Case Studies

• Police Database
• http//www.privacy.vic.gov.au/dir100/PriWeb.nsf/do
  wnload/F187486C9EB29990CA256DF7000AD907/FILE/medi
  a_9.12.03_web.pdf
• Voter information integrity
• http//votingintegrity.org/issues/CentralizedData.
  html

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Hw. And test question

• Describe at least one important thing you learned
  about ethics (minimum ½ page, maximum one page)