Ethics Legal Side of computer systems - Computing Part 7 (Computer ethics and society)

There are a number of laws enacted to protect society from illegal behaviour. 

But computer systems also raise ethical issues that are not part of law.

For example, imagine a company that has employed a number of workers for years on their assembly line. Then a new computerised robot system becomes available that will do the work of half of them.

The new system will work 24 hours a day,…