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Privacy is a moral right of individuals that is frequently and increasingly at issue when information systems are used. It was explained in this chapter why privacy is important and how it is impacted by information technology, and various ethical issues in information privacy were reviewed. Computer security is not itself a moral right or moral value, but it has been argued that maintaining computer security may be morally necessary to protect correlated rights and interests: privacy rights, property rights, freedom rights, human life and health, and national security. It was argued that computer security can also work to undermine rights.

Ethical analysis of privacy and security issues in computing can help com- puter professionals and users recognize and resolve moral dilemmas and can yield ethical policies and guidelines for the use of information technology. In addition, it has been recognized in computer ethics that not only the use of information systems requires moral reflection, but also their design, as system designs reflect moral values and involve moral choices [37, 38]. A system can for example be designed to protect privacy, but it can also be designed to give free access to personal information to third parties. This fact is taken up in

value-sensitive design, an approach to the design of information systems that

attempts to account for values in a principled fashion [39]. Ideally, ethical reflection on information technology should not wait until products hit the market, but should be built in from the beginning by making it part of the design process.

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