Is about considering the competing factors when making ethical decisions because, at any one time, our behaviour may be affected by these factors which may be physiological, legal and spiritual. In common practice are three approaches: legal, formal or informal guidelines, and four principles: harm minimization, deontological (rights and duties) and consequentialist (outcome of the action) principles and Kantian categorical imperative (consistency and respect). Tools and methodologies in use typically linear menu-driven list consisting of four or five steps. Ethical Matrix was introduced but not yet popular until lately (see the next item). In any case, the aim of analysis is to identify the stakeholders and the concerns arising as a consequence of an action with respect to some ethical principles that the stakeholders value.
Published in Chapter:
Hexa-Dimension Metric, Ethical Matrix, and Cybersecurity
Wanbil William Lee (The Computer Ethics Society, Hong Kong & Wanbil and Asssociates, Hong Kong)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3479-3.ch030
Abstract
Exorbitant spending on cybersecurity continues; hacking proliferates and continues with the aftermath getting more and more damaging, yet data protection must helplessly continue. This is attributable to a vicious circle and culminates in something akin to a chronic disease, aptly called a “chronic problem of data protection.” The situation is complicated by a tripartite relationship, called the “Law-Security-Ethics Connection,” and exacerbated by a muddled view of the key concepts, notably ethics, privacy, and risk, which hinders a wholesome appreciation of the problem. Given the status quo, an ethics-based framework was perceived and developed aiming to lessen the incidence of hacking or make hacking exasperate to mitigate rather than eradicate because hacker-free cyberspace is unrealistic and impossible. This chapter aims to introduce a remedy successively through an exposition of the symptom and cause of the problem, clearing the muddle, and an illustration of the tools: Ethical Matrix and Hexa-Dimension Metric using the Octopus Saga.