Understanding Ethics and Professional Practice

Running head: ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Ethics and Professional Practice
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Table of Contents
Question 1:.............................................................................................................................................3
What is going on?..............................................................................................................................3
What are the facts/information?.........................................................................................................3
What are the issues?...........................................................................................................................4
Who is affected?................................................................................................................................4
Ethical issues and implication?..........................................................................................................5
What can be done?.............................................................................................................................5
What are the options?........................................................................................................................7
What is the best option and why?......................................................................................................7
Question 2: Comparing and contrasting the Australian Computer Society Code of Ethics and the
ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct:..................................................................................7
Definition:..........................................................................................................................................7
Definition of ACM code of conduct:.............................................................................................7
Definition of ACS code of conduct:..............................................................................................8
Differences:........................................................................................................................................8
Comparison:...................................................................................................................................8
Contrasts:.....................................................................................................................................10
Examples:........................................................................................................................................11
Question 3: Criticism of the ideas of Rule Deontology and Act Deontology:....................................11
Definition:........................................................................................................................................12

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Definition of Act Deontology:.....................................................................................................12
Definition of Rule Deontology:...................................................................................................12
Differences:......................................................................................................................................12
Examples:........................................................................................................................................13
Example of Act Deontology:.......................................................................................................13
Example of Rule Deontology:.....................................................................................................13
References:..........................................................................................................................................14

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Understanding ethics and professional practice:
Question 1:
To understand the scenario the “Doing Ethics Technique” is followed here.
What is going on?
Answer:
The data scandal of the 2018 Facebook-Cambridge Analytica has raised an important ethical
concern. This was related to ICT. Further, it was exposed that the Cambridge Analytica harvested
the personal information for numerous users of Facebook. This took place from the Facebook profile
and occurred without the consent. Moreover, it was used for political purposes.
What are the facts/information?
Answers:
It was seen that on March 2018 three new organizations were published at the same time. It
led to large public outcry. The share price of Facebook has knocked off more than 100 billion
dollars. Various politicians from the UK and the US demanded answers from the CEO of Facebook.
Thus, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO testified to the United States Congress (Peruzzi et al., 2018). It
was important to invite the public discussion over ethical standards for various social media
organisations, politicians and political consulting organisations. Here, the consumer advocates have
called for higher protection of consumer protection at online media, along with the right to privacy
and curbs on propaganda and misinformation (Venturini & Rogers, 2019).