There are many ethics and laws that relate to IT that affect our society today some of these include
Hacking which is when a individual or group breaks into a company's online website and steals the personal information of individuals associated with the company. There are have many cases in recent years and months of peoples personal information being stolen as the result of computer hacking.
Another thing related to law and IT that affects the younger generation of society on a day to day basis is Cyberbullying. Cyberbulling is when someone bullies another person either through social media, email or text and many teenagers end up taking their own lives as a result of them being cyber bullied.
Another bad ethic related to IT is Internet Trolls, Trolls are people who go onto either a internet chat room or forum and start writing really nasty things about an individual. They sometimes can sometimes log onto a social media site, befriend a individual and then start writing horrible things about them and some of the things that they write can be really personal about the individual that they are writing about.
However a there are also positive ethics related to IT that effects society today,
One of the main positive ethics is that IT can help people who are experience feelings of loneliness or find it difficult talking to people in person for many reasons find a friend who maybe feels the same way and this could help boost the individual's confidence.
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