When entering a job, you enter a culture. The culture within a corporation can either inspire or demoralize workers. These are supposed to align with organizations mission and goals, but when corporations hit a certain size, they may be unattainable between the organizations umbrella.

When then comes into play for employees is the breaking divide between an employees personal morals or what they believe is right vs the ethics and regulations surrounding the profession that you are in and corporate rules.

IT have codes of ethics standards that vary based on the field and what is being worked on

IEEE - Institute of Electrical Electronics and Engineers — IT standards may include Wifi at 802.XX, 11073 family of standards enables connected medical devices, 802.15 bluetooth standards, various standards for cybersecurity. This is especially for use via BSNES, CyberSecurity, and BSIT

ACM - Association for Computing Machinery - The code outlines key principles like contributing to society, avoiding harm, honesty, fairness, and respect for privacy, intellectual property, and confidentiality. These are ethics that are true for those involved in Software Engineering.

ASA - American Statistical Association - ASA ethical guidelines help ensure that statistical practices are reliable, fair, and protect individuals. While traditionally focused on statisticians, they are highly relevant in modern IT roles that deal with data analysis, modeling, reporting, and data governance. These are ethics that are true for those involved in Data Science and Analytics

AITP - The Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) exists to support career growth, education, and ethical practice in IT. This for use for anyone pursuing Comptia certifications.

Each organization has a ethical code list, and some are provided on the WGU course material. You are welcome to review it, but I mostly wanted to give an overlay what each one meant and who it may apply to rather than list everything here.

US Federal IT Regulations are laws that govern IT data privacy, security, compliance, and electronic communications.

HIPPA - Protects patient health information (PHI); enforces security and privacy standards

FERPA - Protects student education records; gives students rights to access and correct their information

SOX - Ensures financial data accuracy; mandates strict IT controls to prevent fraud

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaFzUvnX4Zk)

GLBA - Requires financial institutions to protect consumer financial data and disclose data-sharing policies