Legal considerations affecting information management

✍ Scribed by J.T. Westermeier Jr.

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 894 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7206
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7206(79)90009-0

✦ Synopsis

Today legal considerations may greatly affect the design, development and management of information systems. Recent court rulings in the United States have signaled information managers that liability may be assessed for improp erly relying upon computerized output. Furthermore, the trend appears to be in favor of holding information managers responsible for errors as a matter of policy because the information manager is in the best position to avoid the error and the potential harm. Thus, prudent information management requires a comprehensive risk analysis focusing on a system's key decision points and the substantive law related to those decisions to reduce potential legal exposures associated with possible harm-producing situations which may result from erroneous computerized output.