Professional Practice and Ethics in Cambridge Analytica Scandal

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
AND ETHICS
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Professional Practice and Ethics 1
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Doing Ethics Technique..................................................................................................................2
Protection.....................................................................................................................................3
Catastrophic failure to lawmakers...............................................................................................3
Misuse of the data........................................................................................................................3
Users/Members............................................................................................................................3
Government.................................................................................................................................3
Employees....................................................................................................................................4
Breach of trust..............................................................................................................................4
ACS code of ethics..........................................................................................................................5
Public interest..............................................................................................................................5
Quality of Life.............................................................................................................................5
Honesty........................................................................................................................................6
Competence.................................................................................................................................6
Professional Development...........................................................................................................6
Professionalism............................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

Professional Practice and Ethics 1
Introduction
Cambridge Analytica had provided information to president trump’s presidential campaign
(Meredith, 2018). This organization has targeted the political posts of Facebook to influence
voting intentions of people (Meyer, 2018). This organization has gathered personal information
through a quiz by login Facebook (Simberkoff, 2018). Doing ethics technique is a process for
analyzing the ethical issues. ACS code of ethics refers to the Australian computer society. This is
the part of the ACS constitution. Analysis of Cambridge Analytica situation by applying “Doing
ethics technique” and point of view of an ICT professional using “ACS code of ethics” has been
covered in the following discussion.
Doing Ethics Technique
Analyzing ethical issues in any scenario is a process of doing ethics technique (Talreja, 2011).
This is a process to analyze ICT related ethically questionable raised in an organization. This
technique is helpful to find out the answers of Cambridge analytical incident.
What is going on?
The data of millions of Facebook users ended up giving to Cambridge analytica. This was the
center of a dispute in Cambridge analytica scandal.
What are the facts?
Data of Facebook users utilized to direct messages for political campaigns that are supported by
the Cambridge analytica for notably Trump’s election victory and the Brexit vote.
What are the issues?
Many issues were involved in the case of Cambridge analytica that is as followed.