Author(s): Onoja Emmanuel Oche, Abdullahi Maimuna Ibrahim and Suleiman Muhammad Nasir

Abstract: The digital computer is a key technology of the modern era and has been central and essential to key operations in modern industrial society, including manufacturing, transport and distribution, government, the military, health services, education and research. Their impact as instrument for technological growth will most likely increase over the next century. Due to the numerous applications of computer in daily activities, they are vulnerable to malfunction and misuse, creating problems such as computer crime, software theft, hacking, viruses, invasions of privacy, an over- reliance on intelligent machines and workplace stress, each of which has created one or more ethical dilemmas for the computer profession. This study therefore (i) discusses some of the fundamental aspects of ethical issues (such as privacy, computer crime, software piracy, and accessibility) in computer as an instrument of technology growth and its significance for the computer professional, (ii) evaluates the influence of computer ethics on technology growth from computer professionals’ perspective and (iii) proposes solutions to ethical issues in computer through the help of practitioners who had excellent computer, information and communication technology background.

DOI: 10.33545/26633582.2022.v4.i1a.58

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