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Rapid advances in the field of information technology have created new ethical challenges. These challenges are new, not because they involve a different breed of ethical principles, but because they involve situations where the line of demarcation between right and wrong is fuzzy, owing to the easy availability of private and confidential information through seemingly open and public channels. Kallman and Grillo (1993, p. 3) address this issue when they ask Ts computer ethics, or ethics regarding information technology, really different from regular ethics? Is there an ethical difference between browsing through someone else's computer file and browsing through their desk drawer? Most experts agree that there is actually no special category of ethics for computers; rather, there are ethical situations in which are involved. The capabilities of the computer often lend a special character to problems of computer ethics or, in the words of Forester and Morrison (1994, p. 10), computers create new versions of old moral issues. For instance, the computer often allows people to perform unethical actions faster or to perform actions that may be too difficult or, even impossible, using manual methods. The easy access to information sometimes blurs the ethical issues involved in the use of
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