Question

identify at least three additional ethical responsibilities expected from a computer professional. In brief, explain each responsibility that you identify.

Answer 1

The ethical responsibilities for computer professionals are:

Respect Confidentiality.

Maintain professional competence.

Respects and protection of personal privacy.

Explanation:

• Computer professionals are expected to conduct themselves in an ethical manner.
• Codes of ethics exist in this field to help these professionals make good decisions about the manner of their professional work.
• A computer professional must strive to provide the highest quality of work possible by acquiring and maintaining professional competence. He should be knowledgeable in the laws pertaining to his profession and not violate them.

1. Respect Confidentiality : Confidentiality refers to protecting information from being accessed by unauthorized parties. Only the people who are authorized to do so can gain access to sensitive data. All the security incidents reported in the media today involve major losses of confidentiality.
2. Maintain professional competence : The capability to perform the duties of one's profession generally, or to perform a particular professional task, with skill of an acceptable quality. Maintaining professional competence allows individuals to learn throughout their career, to develop technical skills, and to keep pace with accountancy changes.
3. Respects and protection of personal privacy : Privacy computing includes all computing operations by information owners, collectors, publishers, and users during the entire life-cycle of private information, from data generation, sensing, publishing, and dissemination, to data storage, processing, usage, and destruction.