Ethics and Professional Practice: Edward Snowden’s information reveal of National Security Agency (NSA)

Running head: ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Ethics and Professional Practice: Edward Snowden’s information reveal of National Security
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Executive summary
This essence of this report is based on the case scenario of Edward Snowden’s information
reveal on National Security Agency (NSA). The ethical dilemma associated to it and ICT
protection mechanisms those are to be adopted for protection data in such situation are also
reflected. In order to analyze this case scenario the concept of Doing Ethics Technique (DET) is
used.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Q1. What's going on?...................................................................................................................3
Q2. What are the facts?................................................................................................................4
Q3. What are the issues?..............................................................................................................5
Q4. Who is affected?...................................................................................................................6
Q5. What are the ethical issues and implications?......................................................................7
Q6. What can be done about it?...................................................................................................7
Q7. What are the options?...........................................................................................................8
Q8. Which option is best - and why?.........................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

3ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Introduction
This report depicts the role of ethical consideration in order to demonstrate the
understandings on various ethical analysis methods and ICT cases as well. This report focuses
on Edward Snowden case, which took place on June 2013. Edward Snowden was the employee
of National Security Agency’s defence contractors Booz Allen Hamilton (Isin and Ruppert,
2017). All the classified information of the United States History was leaked in that incident.
It was one of the major ICT data leakage incidents. Based on this case study the situation
that actually took place was elaborated in the below section. After that, the facts of the ethical
dilemma and associated issues with the incident were elaborated. Not only this but also the
people who were affected and the ethical issues and implications are also illustrated in this
report. Besides this, after the identification of the issues it is also found that some major steps
can be taken to resolve these ethical problems. A set of recommendations and among them the
most suitable solution is suggested to mitigate the highlighted issue of the case situation.
Q1. What's going on?
According to the case of Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency’s data leakage it
is found that, the individual who was mainly responsible to leak the united State’s history was
Edward Snowden. Edward Snowden was a professional former technical assistant in CIA and
was working as a defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Including the Booz Allen Hamilton,
Dell he was also been working for the National Security Agency from the past four years (von
Solms and van Heerden 2015). He used to attend many interviews for the newspapers but never
disclosed his identity. However, he was not intentionally hiding his identity till then when he
realized that, he needs to disclose many secret documents in front of the public. He went down to