Ethical Issues for Running a Web Application

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ETHICAL ISSUES FOR RUNNING A WEB APPLICATION
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ETHICAL ISSUES FOR RUNNING A WEB APPLICATION1
Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................2
Ethical Issues for running a small web based application:........................................................2
Data theft and privacy of customers:.....................................................................................2
Choosing right platform for e-commerce:..............................................................................3
Accurate listing of the products:............................................................................................3
Following the laws of online selling:.....................................................................................4
Selling products which are counterfeit:..................................................................................4
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................5
References:.................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction:
In modern days the focus is mainly in building a shopping or e-commerce website as the
through this a company can reach a large number of customers outside the country and with
an e-commerce website the business of the company can be increased rapidly. However, for
expansion of business most of the companies forget about the ethical issues for expansion of
the business and thus if any of the ethical issues are violated then there will be consequences.
Now, in this report the legal and ethical issues while implementing a shopping web
application for a small start-up company is identified and explained in the later section
(Turban et al. 2018). The ethics of the business in modern world is very much important and
thus should be kept in mind while implementing a modern website application and
maintaining ethics is good for maintaining goodwill of the company and helpful to maintain
the faith of customers in the long run.
Ethical Issues for running a small web based application:
Data theft and privacy of customers:
Data breaches are most common in modern days as hackers are trying to exploit weakly
encrypted or no-encryption servers to get personal and sensitive information from websites.
This violates the legal rights and ethics of maintaining privacy of the customers. Some data
breaches in popular companies happened in past are Marriot, Kmart, Michaels, Sony and
Ebay. Hence, Start-up Company newly launching the web application must ensure that online
transactions don’t cause data theft and breaches in the security (Cheung 2016). The customers
provide a lot of sensitive information like credit card numbers, address of communication,
email and passwords used for login into the web app, history of purchases and more valuable
information. Hence, to prevent data theft, the company should use HTTPs/SSL for the
website which is securely collects sensitive customer information, add additional layers like