Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas in Computing Ethics is a part of philosophy that deals with how human actions are considered wrong or right and technology enables institutions to behave in a way that they could We cannot do without technology. Computer ethics sheds light on these unexplored areas of ethics.1. Loyalty: the employee has the responsibility to be honest to his employer and vice versa (all things being equal) if there is a mutual agreement, it will be an ethical view. Consequentialists believe that although an IT professional has a prima facie duty of loyalty to the employer, he or she is also completely loyal to the company because of the health and safety implications that the nature of their work entails. (Herman T., 2013). Example is Tesco as a retailer2. Hardware/software3. The whistleblower is an employee who draws general attention to the bad actions of the employer in the public interest (Herman T. , 2013). Deontologists believe that it is morally wrong for an employee to reveal their employer's secret, which is the opposite of the consequentialist, because the consequence of the action will benefit society while virtue is4. Copy right5. Bribery/bribery6. Plagiarism is the immoral and unethical act of claiming ownership of someone else's work to gain advantage by referencing the author.7. The ethical view of plagiarism is that under no circumstances should anyone plagiarize someone else's work because it is a law and there is no moral justification for it to be broken . Therefore, if you break the rule, you must be punished. Consequentialists believed that the individual should take this into account8. Privacy: Massive data is collected about individual organizations and used to detect customer purchasing habits, advertising, security, etc. Therefore, the organization... middle of paper ...... software companies can lose money; this particularly affects small producers. Smaller producers are affected more primarily due to their size and lack of resources, while larger producers will not be affected as much. Displacement of jobs The spread of information technology has meant that businesses have been able to downsize their workforce and replace them with newer technologies, therefore creating an ethical dilemma. Other companies give their employees more roles than necessary, increasing work pressure. Forcing employees out of their jobs or giving them more work without additional benefits can also be considered unethical. (Online) available at: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=521355 consulted: (March 14, 2014)