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It is necessary to provide that information technology (IT) is defined as “the tools and methods used to collect, retain, handle or distribute information. The information technology is usually associated with computers and related technologies applied to decision making.

Information technology (IT) is changing the traditional way of doing things, people who work in government, private companies, that direct personal or professional working in any field of IT used daily by using Internet, Credit cards, electronic payment of payroll, among other functions, that is why the role of IT in business processes such as manufacturing and sales have expanded greatly. The first generation of computers was designed to keep records and monitor the operational performance of the company, but the information was not timely because the analysis obtained on a given day actually described what had happened a week earlier. The current developments make it possible to capture and use the information when it is generated, i.e., have online processes. This has not only changed the way we do the work and the workplace but has had a major impact on the way in which firms compete (Alter, 1999).

Efficiently use information technology can gain a competitive advantage, but we need to find successful procedures for maintaining such advantages as a constant, and to provide alternative courses of action and resources to suit the needs of the moment, because the benefits do not always are permanent. The information system must be modified and updated regularly if you want to receive continuous competitive advantages. The creative use of information technology can provide administrators a new tool to differentiate human resources, products and / or services in respect of its competitors (Alter, 1999). This type of competitive pre-eminence can bring another group of strategies, such as a flexible and standards in time, capable of producing a wider variety of products at a lower price and in less time than the competition.

Information technologies are a tool increasingly important in business, but to implement a system company information does not guarantee that it gets results so immediate or long term. In the implementation of information system involves many factors being one of the main human factors. It is expected to change in a situation of staff be reluctant to adopt new procedures or develop them fully and in accordance with the guidelines that were established. From the above it is necessary to take into strategic planning account present and future needs of the company. Just as a preliminary investigation and feasibility study of the project that you want.

To understand the moral dimensions of information systems is necessary to start from the social and ethical challenges that technological advances generated.
There are currently five moral dimensions which are:
1. there should be no personal record systems whose existence is a secret.
2. Individuals are entitled to access, inspect, review and amend the system that contains information about them.
3. Personal information will not be used for purposes other than those for which consent was obtained.
4. The system administrators have personal responsibility, formal and legal responsibility for damage caused by the reliability and security of systems.
5. Governments have the right to intervene in relations between private information.

Technology and information systems threaten privacy, which is the right of individuals to be left alone without supervision or interference by other individuals, organizations or government of individuals to make cheap, affordable and effective invasion.

Venezuela has ordered 3 laws governing this matter. They are:

1. Special Law against Cybercrime of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
Aims at comprehensive protection of the systems using information technologies and the prevention and punishment of crimes committed against such systems or any component or crimes committed through the use of these technologies.

2. Telecommunications Law of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
Is to establish the legal framework regulating telecommunications in general, to guarantee the human right of people to communicate and conduct of economic activities needed to achieve telecommunication, without other limitations than those derived from the Constitution and laws.
Excluded from the purpose of this Law regulating the content of broadcasts and communications sent through the various means of telecommunications, which is governed by constitutional provisions, laws and regulations concerned.

3. Organic Law of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
Aims to develop the guiding principles in science, technology and innovation established by the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, organized the National Science, Technology and Innovation, define the guidelines that will guide policies and strategies for the activity science, technology and innovation with the introduction of institutional and operational mechanisms for the promotion, encouragement and promotion of scientific research, social ownership and transfer of knowledge and technological innovation in order to build capacity for the generation, use and circulation of knowledge and boost national development.