Facebook Data Breach: An Applied Ethics Perspective

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Case Study..............................................................................................................................2
Professional Ethics Perspectives............................................................................................2
Philosophical Ethics Perspectives..........................................................................................4
Sociological/ Descriptive Ethics Perspectives.......................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Ethics can be defined as the significant branch of philosophy, which specifically
includes systematizing, defending and finally recommending the various concepts of correct
as well as incorrect conduct (Lacan, 2013). Three basic areas of ethics are Meta ethics, he
normative ethics and finally applied ethics. Meta ethics deals with the theoretical meaning as
well as references of the moral proposition and how the truth value could be easily and
promptly determined. The second area is normative ethics that deals with the practical means
to determine the moralised course of actions. The third area is applied ethics that deals what a
person is obligated or permitted to do in a specific domain of action or situation (Noddings,
2013). The following report outlines a brief discussion on the recent ICT case study of
Facebook data breach, in respect to the three distinct perspectives of applied ethics. Relevant
details will be provided here.
Discussion
Case Study
In April 2018, the data of around 87 million users of Facebook were at stake. The data
scandal of Facebook involved the total collection of the personal identifiable information of
those affected users (Badshah, 2018). Cambridge Analytica, a data mining firm, was
responsible for improperly accessing the users’ data of Facebook by a third party quizzing
application and has utilized these data for building several psychological profiles for targeting
voters with the political advertisements. A whistleblower made this news public and hence
the scandal was noticed by Facebook.