Awareness of information security and its implications to legal and ethical issues in our daily life

Information security issue becomes increasingly concerns in the current environment with fast development of information technology, in which most of the concerns are rising from legal and ethical aspect. It is always questioned that are individuals and organizations aware of information security and the relevant regulations. How would they act when encountering information security misuse? How much power do regulations and ethics have on restricting information security misuse? This research study will mainly analyse legal and ethical issues in information security including the public awareness of information security and their impact. We formed three hypotheses based on the relevant court case review and the related literature, and have discussed whether the hypotheses are supported or not and several interviews to the victim of information security victim.