Website Ethics in regards to:

• Research
• Cyberspace

• Research ethics

- do the usual research principles still have relevance when people are distant ie online?
- Many professionals give lip service to ethics.
- The oath is usually known but not acted upon as a result these people are not ethical.
- If a new profession emerges it does not have any preconceived ethics as a result what do we do? This is the current situation in cyberspace.
- There is a situation where policy makers have not got the experience in relation to the Internet. As a result these people are out of touch. Also because the technology is changing rapidly, the laws must be fast.
- Nazi atrocities were carried out in the name of research.
- Neurembourg code is the archetype.
- (i) Right to privacy
- (ii) Informed consent.

- Can these two concepts be applied to the Internet?
- The Internet is both public and private at the same time.
- Email is not private. It is on one level because a person with average computer skills can not break another person’s code- but a person with advanced computer skills eg a web master, can- Therefore it is both private and public.
- Large organisations that have email usually filter the content of the emails.
- Postal mail is not as accessible as a result of physical nature and it would be too much trouble and time.
- If one is to save a usenet or chat room room pages, is this an infringment on someone’s on people’s privacy?
- If you ask in person for someone’s information, they can tell you to go away.