Ethics, privacy and database sharing

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Abstract

This article explores the ethical problems resulting from our technological capability for database sharing where consumers have given consent for access to private information only to a specific second party. The implications of the problem for web-marketing and consumer trust are extensive. Mason's four party model of the information sharing process is used to define the problems created by database sharing. The arguments of the classical rule-deontologist, Immanuel Kant, demonstrate rather than merely claim the existence of a serious ethical problem situation.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute
Place of Publicationusa
Pages973-978
Number of pages6
StatePublished - Dec 1 2003
Event34th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute - , United States
Duration: Nov 22 2003Nov 25 2003

Conference

Conference34th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute
Country/TerritoryUnited States
Period11/22/0311/25/03

Keywords

  • Database sharing
  • Deontology
  • Ethics
  • Kant
  • Privacy

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