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Loudon 2 proposes five (5) moral dimensions of the information age are:

1) Rights and obligations of information: What are the rights of individuals and corporations about information about themselves? What are the legal means to protect it? And what are the obligations are for that information. “These rights include:
Privacy is the right of individuals to be left in peace.
Technology and information systems threaten the privacy of individuals to make cheap, efficient and effective invasion.
Due process requires the existence of a set of rules or laws that clearly define how we treat information about individuals and that appeal mechanisms available.

2) Property rights: how to move the classical concepts of patent and intellectual property in digital technology? What are these rights and how to protect? Information technology has hindered the protection of property because it is very easy to copy or distribute computer information networks. Intellectual property is subject to various protections under three patents:
Trade secrets: Any intellectual work product used for business purposes may be classified as secret.
Copyright: It is a concession granted by law to protect creators of intellectual property against copying by others for any purpose for a period of 28 years.
Patents: A patent gives the holder, for 17 years, an exclusive monopoly on the ideas on which an invention.

3) Responsibility and control: Who is responsible and who controls the use and abuse of information from the People. The new information technologies are challenging existing laws regarding liability and social practices, to force individuals and institutions accountable for their actions.

4) Quality systems: What data standards, information processing programs should be required to ensure the protection of individual rights and society? It can hold individuals and organizations for avoidable and foreseeable consequences if their obligation is to see and correct.

5) Quality of life: What values should be preserved and protected in a society based on information and knowledge? What institutions should protect and which should be protected? The negative social costs of introducing information technologies and systems are growing along with the power of technology. Computers and information technologies can destroy valuable elements of culture and society, while providing benefits.

These five dimensions represent very good guideline considerations, ethical questions and answers should be a company when introducing a new technology.

Along with the technological advances open new possibilities to develop as much to “take advantage” of information to make improper use of it. Technological advances occur ever more rapidly, resulting in some problems adjusting to society in general. These are the consequences and changes brought about by technology, since it can impact on lifestyle or culture of a society.

An example is the use of mobile telephony, until a few years we would imagine that it could, if you want, carry a phone. Today we do not imagine life without them, the new generations would ponder as did their ancestors to live without this little tool that improves our quality of life.

As technology advances, increases the ethical challenges of societies as they create new opportunities to distort the positive sense that they give to our lives.

When we talk about information technology, we mean all those tools developed by man to enable individuals, businesses and governments, store, manage, protect and handle large volumes of information be it private or public.
The availability of new technology can open up countless possibilities of use and abuse. In most cases even anticipated generating some kind of problem. One might ask: what are the effects or how they impact changes in information technology in the ethical systems?

Time passes quickly. The Information Technology 100 years old and it seems incredible that, before his foray into the lives of human beings could manage without them.

It is very interesting to discover how the top executives of companies such as IBM suggests that the challenges posed to humanity to address the impact of technology today, have nothing to do with microprocessors, or with services in the cloud or with mobile applications.

Are aimed, instead, to issues more related to people: to facilitate the connection of the subsystems that exist in the world and maintain social stability and economic development (starting with the business sector), ensure security and data privacy personal (and dignity of their owners) and transform the leadership to make it an exercise in creativity, listening, collaboration and influence Will technologists become more sensitive? Or maybe the machines increasingly resemble people? Read the last paragraph of the news and see

Mafia extension has caused discomfort in the U.S. security agency within Homeland Security, because it allows circumventing the administrative or judicial action that led to the closure of the site. Why Homeland Security has contacted Mozilla, demanding to withdraw from circulation the controversial application.

However, Mozilla refuses to accede to the request, saying that Homeland Security has no right to demand it, and that any request must be issued by the U.S. courts, not the executive.

“Homeland Security has not returned to contact, nor have we received a legal opinion on the matter,” writes Harvey Anderson, head of legal affairs for Mozilla, the organization’s blog.

Anderson also relates to the substantive issue, questioning the power of the authorities, and openly reviewing the request of Homeland Security violates a free Internet. Anderson points out that the Mozilla Foundation at all times be governed by judicial opinions and other requirements covered by the law. Add that to the case of Mafia, still no legal requirement whatsoever that supports the request of Homeland Security.

The aging of the population, budget cuts, rising costs and staff shortages are some of the most important challenges facing health services in the EU.

To overcome them, the Commission urges EU governments to invest more in information technology and communications technology (ICT).

The doctors and nurses and hospitals already have several technological resources (web, secure data networks, wireless, and internet information services) that allow them to provide patients with better health services and more efficient, lower cost.

Significant benefits

some of the most successful technological applications can be seen this week in Budapest (Hungary) in the framework of the health week 2011 Ingles EU.

These include health data network in Denmark, which provides a quick and effective communication between patients, doctors and social workers. The streamlining of services has generated a cumulative savings of 1,400 million Euros.

For its part, the United Kingdom in 2008 eliminated 2.4 million unnecessary medical appointments and 1.2 million journeys by ambulance and emergency services interventions, thanks to an Internet service and a helpline.

In the Italian region of Lombardy, the telecardiology-enabling the remote examination of patients with heart problems, has enabled the reduction of hospital readmissions by 36% and outpatient visits by 12%.

Serving patients

Thanks to ICT, doctors have easy access to the records of their patients received before the results of laboratory tests and can send prescriptions directly to pharmacists.

A study funded by the EU in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany shows that the introduction of tale-home could increase the survival rate of patients by 15% and 26% reduction in the number of days they spend in the hospital.