Drawbacks of ICT in a global society

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Drawbacks of Information Technology

        It is true that today’s society is incomplete without IT, and it is almost impossible to imagine a life without computers, internet, and digital gadget like, cell phones, videogames and IPods. However, the advancement in technology has created many ethical and social issues, like, increased unemployment, threat to privacy; crime has increased and so has blackmailing.

Threat to personal privacy and hazards of high tech crime: Many people nowadays do not carry cash every time, instead they use debit cards and credit cards; these cards are easy to use as they just needed to be swiped and rest of the transaction is done by the banks. These cards are frequently use because you can use them over internet (e –commerce). We not only see credit cards but also driving license, health cards, loyalty cards and smart cards; these cards store our information and act as an identity. So when we visit the hospital or visit leisure clubs we don’t have to waste our time entering our name and then entering our details, we just swipe the card and the database records our name. But there are problems; our details are not completely secure with all these information systems.  People hack banks and hospitals and can easily gain our information. Once they have our information they can edit it, delete or can use it to blackmail us. Pune (India), 2005 hackers broke into a multinational bank. They allegedly transferred a total of Rs 1.5 million from the bank into their own accounts, opened under fictitious names. The money was used to splurge on luxuries like cars and mobile phones.

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The difficulty of defining and protecting intellectual property in an all-digital age: Since, internet has become widely available many, people do not bother going to the bookstore and paying $20 for a book. They simple turn on their computer and click on Google, as all of those books are available on the net. Software as lime-wire and torrent allows us to download movies, songs and games all for free. In olden days, it was quite expensive to produce CDs and DVDs but now an ordinary person sitting in their home can produce 100s of CDs. However, this way the original author ...

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