ICT Professional Practice and Ethics: Cambridge Analytica Case Study

ICT Professional Practice and Ethics: Cambridge Analytica Case Study
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ICT PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND ETHICS
Executive Summary
i) The most significant objective of this report is understanding about ICT professional
practice and ethics for case study of Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
ii) The specified technologies could provide major accessibility and availability of
information with telecommunications. Information and communication technology mainly
focuses on any type of communication technology after involvement of the Internet
connection, communication medium, wireless network and cell phones.
iii) A proper inclusion of systems and recommending correct and incorrect conduct concepts
is altogether termed as ethics. Every matter of value is eventually included in this particular
moral philosophy and it comprises of proper explanations about human morality. There are
six codes, which are required to understand if the situation or case scenario is ethical and
should be properly analysed.
iv) This report has clearly analysed the case study with DET and ACS code of ethics.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Brief Background of Case Scenario.......................................................................................3
Analysing Situation with Doing Ethics Technique or DET...................................................4
What is going on?...............................................................................................................4
What are the facts?.............................................................................................................4
What are the Issues?...........................................................................................................5
Who is affected?.................................................................................................................6
What are the ethical issues as well as implications?..........................................................6
What can be done about it?................................................................................................7
What are the options?.........................................................................................................7
Which option is the best and why?....................................................................................8
Proper Analyses of Situation in respect to ICT Professional with ACS Code of Ethics.......8
Conclusions and Recommendation..........................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................12

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ICT PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND ETHICS
Introduction
A major part of information technology, ICT is responsible for focusing on role of
any unified communications and proper integration of telecommunication as well as
computerized system with respective enterprise software, middleware, audio visual systems
and storage that can easily enable every user to access, transmit, store or manipulate
confidential information (Dutta, Geiger and Lanvin 2015). This particular technology could
even either be non ethical or ethical to understand a situation associated to any specific
organization. This report will be providing a proper discussion over professional practices
and ethical overview for ICT in the case scenario of Facebook Cambridge Analytica. In 2016,
a whistle blower, Christopher Wylie blew whistle against the wrong activities of the
organization of Cambridge Analytica (Cambridge Analytica Scandal. 2019). This report will
be providing proper analysis of this specific case study on the basis of ACS code of ethics
and DET.
Discussion
Brief Background of Case Scenario
A significant organization, Cambridge Analytica has given significant information for
president’s campaign that had enabled several targeted politics based posts on Donald Trump
in Facebook for the core purpose of influencing voting operation of people (Cambridge
Analytica Scandal. 2019). Cambridge Analytica even gathered out personal data of users by
arranging a quiz or survey, which required Facebook login to effectively complete the quiz
and hence it was being analysed that more than two lakh seventy thousand US citizens
undertook this quiz, only being data to be stolen by them.
Christopher Wylie was an ex employee in Cambridge Analytica, who had blown
whistle after revealing that there were illegal extraction of personal information or data in this