Information Technology Ethics

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ETHICS
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Introduction
The case study is seen to be based upon the investigation’s reopening over Facebook
which has been named as “EnforceTheOrder”. This particular campaign is seen to have been
launched by EPIC or the Electronic Privacy Information Center mainly for the purpose of
ensuring the appropriate law as well as order within the utilisation of the platform of social
media (FTC: Enforce the Order, 2019). The basic or rather the primary urge of this particular
campaign has been urging for the Federal Trade Commission for the main purpose of
implementing the act before the date 26th of March in the year 2019 (Herschel & Miori, 2017).
This specific report has been seen to base upon the main understanding of this specific case and
also the purpose of the implementation of knowledge from all the four ethical theories which are
classical which is going to be put together for ensuring all the several outcomes which is seen to
be possible from this particular scenario.
Utilitarianism Theory
As per the particular theory of Utilitarianism, it is seen to be mainly defining the main
locus of all the actions involving all the correct and the wrong one which will actually be the
outcomes.
As per the particular case which has to be supported, it can be defined that there are a
number of complaints about the ignorance of all kinds of settings which are related to privacy
and has been seen to be reported to Facebook (Körner & Volk, 2014). Facebook is seen to
commit a large number of crimes related to the gathering of the data regarding health and also
leaking all of them without any kind of prior information for all the users.

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This can be considered to be hugely unethical and this will be leading to a huge number
of serious implications for all the people as well as the enterprise. Hence, Facebook must have
been fined for all such sort of acts (DeVellis, 2016). A very serious law is needed to be
implicated within the enterprise by the Government and this will be very much helpful for
bringing much better outcomes for all the people.
Deontology Theory
A particular theory is seen to be defined as a theory which will be ethical, when it will be
making use of certain kinds of rules for the main purpose of differentiating all the right actions
from that of the wrong ones. The theory which has been proposed will be needing several people
for following certain kinds of rules and thus duty will be performed by them.
From this particular case study, it can be said that there has been a major failure of FTC
for launching the implementation of a specific law (Berreby, Bourgne & Ganascia, 2017). This
law will be taken by a single action of enforcement against the enterprise mainly for establishing
both law as well as order within the social community over the internet.
This can be hence regarded as a huge negative impact because FTC do not give any kind
of importance to all the pleas and of all the people. There is a particular obligation of Facebook
which is highly related to morality foe keeping up with all the business’s promises and thus will
be ensuring that the website’s privacy must be maintained in a much better way. Therefore, the
FTC must have understood all the people’s complaints and thus must be taking a number of
stringent actions for dealing with all the issues which will be raised.