Chap.3 Ethics & Social Responsibility

2/7/2011 Ranked #1

Any company has ethics and social responsibility, After all they are the untold rules that everyone usually go by.                   

 Top 500 Green Companies IBM ranked #3

 On February 7.2011 IBM was ranked one of the companies with the most ethical reputations. Companies were evaluated on waste management, products’ social utility, labor standards and human rights policy. The data aquired went back from 2002 to December 2010. It was also ranked third in the newsweeks' and eighth in Greenpeace.

These are some of IBM's ethics on privacy:
Fairness:
IBM collects and process' personal information fairly and lawfully;  
Accuracy:
IBM will keep personal information as accurate, complete and up-to-date as is necessary for the purpose for which it is processed.  
Disclosure:
IBM will make personal information available inside or outside IBM only in appropriate circumstances.  

Security:
IBM will implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard personal information and instruct third parties processing personal information on behalf of IBM, if any, to process it only in a manner that is consistent with processing it on IBM's behalf, and to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard the personal information.  
Access:
IBM will provide individuals with appropriate access to personal information about them.

The other privacy policies*http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/policy7.shtml 

IBM is global and also has ethics oversea http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/policy11.shtml
IBM Environmental Affairs: http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/policy9.shtml
IBM ranked #1 Overall http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/02/07/ibm-intel-pepsi-top-ethics-rankings/
IBM Ranked #3http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/10/18/dell-hp-ibm-jj-intel-top-newsweeks-green-rankings/
GreenPeace Ranked #7http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/12/08/oracle-makes-dismal-debut-in-greenpeace-it-rankings/?graph=full&id=1