5.9.5 (HL)—MIS benefits, risks, and ethics

MIS can improve coordination, speed, forecasting and control, but creates cyber, privacy, dependency, bias and surveillance risks.

Good governance sets access, retention, audit, security and accountability; ethical use balances efficiency with rights and stakeholder harm.

Identify the benefit, threat, affected stakeholder and control, then judge residual risk.

A firm encrypts customer data, limits access and audits model decisions rather than assuming the software is neutral.

Compliance alone does not prove ethical or socially responsible use.