IT Ethical Issues

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IT ETHICAL ISSUES
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Introduction
This essay intends to discuss the aspects of the IT ethical issues in the spoofing application
that could include several ethical issues for the users. The four ethical theories are briefly
discussed in this essay along with the discussion of the connection among the ethical theories
and the issues discovered from the article.
Discussion
There are four kinds of ethical theories. They are utilitarianism, deontology, virtues and
rights.

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Utilitarianism approach of ethics involves the idea of consequentiality ethical theory
which encourages the idea of maximizing utility. Utilitarianism is in the normative ethical
theory class, which dictates that consequences of the action are the sole stakes to measure
right and wrong. In other words, the theory fosters the idea of greatest amount of good for the
greater count of individuals (Monteverde, 2014). Utilitarianism promotes pleasure and
happiness and rejects any kind of actions that lead to unhappiness or cause harm. When the
theory is considered in making decisions related to social, political and economical arena, the
aim is to better the society. Right produces happiness and the wrong reverses the process of
happiness and leads to sadness (Peters, 2015). Greatest happiness is the principle of
utilitarianism. In the political arena, it is believed that laws and regulations are fostered for
the well-being of maximum number of people. There are two parts to utilitarianism theory,
act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism. Act utilitarianism principle is directly applied to the
action choice in a situation. The action which brings out the best result (minimizing bad
actions) out from the situation is considered the right act. Rule utilitarianism principle
defines the utility used in determining the validity of moral principle or the moral order of
conduct. For example, promise keeping- where in this contemporary word people easily
breaks promises and there are others who keep them. The right and wrong of the deed will be
defined by breaking or following rules. Ooqqxx application promotes advertisements, which
shows push ads on notification bars, pop up ads and ads when downloading something.
Advertisements promote products which are advantageous for the third party but can cause
problem for user. Utilitarian theory is followed as maximum utility is drawn and helps in
promotion of the third party. The ac can be considered good as the outcome is positive
Deontology theory of ethics can be simply defined as duty based non consequential
ethics. The decision making for this theory of ethics is non-consequential, which means
actions of an individual are not defined by consequences. The principle of the theory is