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Professional Issues, Ethics and Computer Law : Wikileaks

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Professional Issues, Ethics and Computer Law : Wikileaks

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PROFESSIONAL ISSUES,ETHICS AND COMPUTERLAW
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................................................3TASK 1.....................................................................................................................................................................31. Legal issues.....................................................................................................................................................3TASK 2.....................................................................................................................................................................52. Social issues....................................................................................................................................................5TASK 3.....................................................................................................................................................................73. Ethical issues...................................................................................................................................................7CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTIONThe government of United States has framed some rules and regulation which areframed for securing the confidential information in interest of the country. CIA is the foreignintelligence service which maintains privacy and confidentiality to keep the informationsecretly and not to disclosed that data in public. The present report focuses on Wikileakswhich is the non profit making organization and is engaged in the business of publishingsecret information. The founder of this organization is Julian Assange who leaks informationwhich is considered as illegal or fraud in eyes of law (Hunt and Mehta, 2013). He had leakednine thousand files from high security network. They used different tools for this purpose thatis produced by Apple, Samsung and Microsoft. 1. Legal issues.According to laws which are framed by government of United States, organizationare not able to disclose information which are kept by the legal authorities. (Silberman, Iraniand Ross, 2010). As per the given scenario, Wikileaks have to take prior permission of CIAto use information or data and disclosed them to public. The CIA's hacking operation hasused various types of tool which has helped in disclosing information. The company stoleapprox nine thousand files of CIA from the network security which were confidential in theinterest of the country. In this case, various types of legal issues have been witnessed whichhave affected to the existence. CIA is having their own rules, regulation and policies onwhich no other organization are able intervene.. They are required to frame some accuratepolicies through which no country can take information which is illegal according to laws ofgovernment. Organization has to follow those rules and regulation which are imposed on them. Asper those legal bindings, no company is able to disclose any information in public which areof the interest of public (Jacob, Decker and Lugg, 2016). They have to follow them in theefficient manner. Nine thousand files disclosed in the public were illegal. The Centralintelligence agencies are facing complications after the act which is done by Wikileaks. Theact involves published privacy and confidential document with the help of tools which canbreak into phones and further types of electronic devices. Thousands of documents which are
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