Genealogical approaches to ethical implications of informational assimilative integrated discovery systems (AIDS) in business

  • Authors:

  • Kamal Dean Pharhizgar;Stephen E. Lunce

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Management and Marketing, Texas A&M International University, One West End Washington St., Laredo, Texas;Department of Accounting & Information Systems, Texas A&M International University, One West End Washington St., Laredo, Texas

  • Venue:
  • ECA '94 Proceedings of the conference on Ethics in the computer age
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Development of knowledge-based technological acquisition techniques and customers' information profiles are known as assimilative integrated discovery systems (AIDS) in modern organizations. These systems have access through processing to both deep and broad domains of information in modern societies. Through these systems organizations and individuals can predict future trend probabilities and events concerning their customers. AIDSs are new techniques which produce new information which informants can use without the help of the knowledge sources because of the existence of highly sophisticated computerized networks. This paper has analyzed he danger and side effects of misuse of information through the illegal, unethical and immoral access to the data-base in an integrated and assimilative information system as described above. Cognivistic mapping, pragmatistic informational design gathering, and holistic classifiable and distributive techniques are potentially abusive systems whose outputs can be easily misused by businesses when researching the firm's customers.