Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas in ITE Ethics is part of the philosophy that deals with how human actions are considered wrong or right and technology enables individuals and institutions to behave in ways that might not be possible without technology. Computer ethics brings these unexplored areas of ethics into focus.1. Loyalty: the employee has the responsibility to be honest towards his employer and vice versa (all things being equal) if there is a mutual agreement it will be an ethical vision. Consequentialists believe that although IT professionals have a prima facie obligation of loyalty to the employer he or she also has total loyalty to the company because of the health and safety concerns that pertain to their nature of work (Herman T. , 2013), an example is Tesco as a retailer2. Hardware/software3. The whistleblower is an employee who draws general attention to the employer's mistakes in the public interest (Herman T., 2013). Deontologists believe it is morally wrong for the employee to reveal his employer's secret, unlike the consequentialist because the consequence of the action will benefit society while virtue is4. Copy right5. Corruption/bribery6. Plagiarism is an immoral and unethical act of claiming ownership of someone else's work to gain an advantage by referencing the author.7. The deontological view of plagiarism is that under no circumstances should anyone plagiarize someone else's work because it is a law and there is no moral justification for breaking it, so if you break the rule you must be punished. Consequentialists believed that the individual should consider8. Privacy: Huge amounts of data are collected about individual organizations and used to detect customer purchasing patterns, advertising, security, etc. Therefore the organization… half of the paper… item manufacturing companies could lose money; this particularly affects small producers. Small producers are most affected mainly due to their size and lack of resources, while larger producers will not be affected as much. Displacement of jobs The spread of information technologies has meant that companies can reduce their workforce and replace them with newer technologies, thus creating an ethical dilemma. Other companies assign their employees more roles than required, thus increasing work pressure. Forcing employees to quit their jobs or giving them more work without additional benefits can also be considered unethical. Ref http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Legal_and_ethical_issues_parent_to_information_technology#slide=9 Johnson DG (1998) computer ethics, Dianne. (Online) available from: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=521355 accessed: (14 March, 2014)