In today lecture we examine the term privacy which nowadays raise some ethical issues considering the internet boom. First of all let's define privacy. According to me privacy refers to all the information about your self that you don't want to be known.
Let's have a look at facebook, one of the most common social network. We were told in the lecture that all facebook executives were involved in things like Data management and technology oriented field. This is wired as facebook function to me is to link up people together and enable them to share stuff. However it seems that facebook has complete other idea of it. In fact it is an advertising company that make money from selling their data to other conmay that may need it. But it is not propely written when you sign in and this is why most of the people don't know about this. This is not ethical as your virtual identity is not your real identity you can put up fake information about yourself and if revealed to people you did not want to now could create big problems in your real life. On the other hand you probably put on facebook real personal stuff and if available to any one you did non want to could ruin a life and the person you are. Finally one other thing that I think is ethically critical is the fact that in the beginning of 2010 facebook changed its privacy setting and for a couple of days every profiles were available to anyone this could have cause big problems in terms of ethical implications as people could try to hide things in real life that they probably reveal on their profiles. Inother words their profiles were nacked to the internet.
Think about what you put on facebook as it could affect your real life.
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