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Ethics of Business Continuity and Disaster RecoveryTechnologies: a Conceptual Orientation

The ethical implications of business continuity/disaster recovery planning, and technology is rarely a topic discussed within the academic or practitioner literature. However, ethical decisions permeate such business continuity and disaster recovery areas as data custody, privacy, and security issues involved in the control and possession of business continuity data. In this paper, a discussion and analysis of the ethical considerations involved with business continuity and disaster recovery planning is presented. The ethical foundations of privacy are presented within the framework of the Kantian categorical imperatives, Christian golden rule philosophy, and Utilitarian philosophy. Building upon those foundations, a synthesis of the theoretical framework and arguments for data privacy and security is provided. This paper is relevant to both Information Technology practitioners as well as scholars in that it addresses ethical issues that are often overlooked in a predominantly technical domain.