> > But if we're talking about from the "initial leak" perspective, this ethical > line is still not a "supreme law". If I came across, in the course of my > duties, evidence that my company is behaving in an illegal manner, for > example, there becomes an interesting legal and ethical debate as to whether > or not I now become culpable if I do not report the crime immediately, or > otherwise blow the whistle on the illegal activity, especially if the found > evidence points to knowledge at-the-top of the activity.
Not sure if it's true for more "mundane" crimes like say, accounting fraud, but not speaking up about sexual harassment that you've learned about can definitely make the company legally liable, if not necessarily you personally. But that's not exactly the question here. It is possible, as I understand it, that by not reporting a crime you can be considered an accessory to that crime. Naturally, this varies widely by jurisdiction, and the chance of actually getting prosecuted and especially convicted for that would depend highly on the circumstances of the case. Obviously the ethics of it would vary widely depending on the type of crime and many other hairs that ethicists can split. Darrell _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
