Codes of Conduct for Internet Organizations

This assignment examines the codes of conduct and policies implemented by four prominent internet organizations. It includes a survey of ten individuals regarding their perceptions of these codes, alongside detailed breakdowns of each organization's specific guidelines. The analysis delves into the ethical implications of these codes and their potential influence on user behavior and online interactions.

Running head: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Discussion............................................................................................................................2
Survey..............................................................................................................................3
Ethical policy for each company.....................................................................................5
Description of unethical conduction by various organization.........................................6
Google..........................................................................................................................6
Dell..............................................................................................................................7
Apple............................................................................................................................7
Tax paid in Australia by this organization.......................................................................8
Summary..............................................................................................................................8
References..........................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The Google codes of conduct is built in such a way that everything which they do with
various kinds of work at google is generally measured against the given standard for the ethical
conduct of various ongoing business in google (Denecke, 2015). Trust and respect among the
various employees and users are reason behind the success of Google. Dell focus on honesty,
integrity and highest value of ethical conduct. There are lot of reason behind the ethical conduct
that Dell devote themselves in a creation of culture which is generally based on various kinds of
ethical standards (Kosinski et al., 2015). Dell focus in creation of loyalty customers by giving or
providing superior value of experience at a great experience. Apple focus on creation of
standards at highest level for social and environmental responsibility. The suppliers of Apple are
generally required to give safe condition for its employees. Employees of Facebook and other
performing of workers collectively known as Facebook personnel (Ahmed et al., 2013).
Facebook personnel are expected to make use of their own judgment for acting in best kind of
interest in Facebook during performing of their duties.
In the coming pages of the report a survey has been done regarding the peoples view
regarding the fact how ethical the major internet organization are. A brief summary has been
provided regarding the Ethical codes of conduct policies. A report has been provided regarding
any kind of unethical conduct by various organization. In the end a report has been provided the
tax paid or given by major internet organization in Australia.
Discussion

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Survey
Names Review Rating
Christian Reading Google is best search engine
in the world. As per me they
strictly follow their code of
conduct
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Joshua Humphries Google provides the best
search result and they do not
interfere with privacy of
various organizations.
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Aiden Degraves In comparison to other search
engine Google provides the
best search results. They
strictly follow their codes of
conduct.
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Luca Chatfield Apples provides the best
quality of products but they
make use of child labor which
hampers their code of
conduct.
8
Hunter Airey Apple provides best quality
of gadgets but they do not
treat their employee fairly
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which is considered to be a
negative part on the side of
Apple and it also disobey the
codes of conduct
Lucas Youl Dell is the best organization
for providing best of quality
of computer products in the
industry.
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Thomas Pizzey Facebook is the best online
social web site which is
known all over the world. It is
strictly follows its codes of
conduct and in some cases it
disobey the laws.
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George Cheney Facebook is the most popular
website in the domain of
social networking. In some
cases it
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Brock Chubb Dell claims to provide best
quality of products to clients.
They tend to follow their
codes of conduct for their
employees.
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Michael Winchcombe Apples provides the best
quality of products but on the
contrary they tend to use
child labor and long shift
hour of workers which
hamper their code of conduct
of the employees
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Ethical policy for each company
The Google code of conduct focus on the fact that it does not put evil into practices. This
particular organization has some principles for higher standard which generally helps in hiring of
large of people, building better products for future and attracting some of the loyal user (Tello,
2013). This organization has some principle for trust among the employees and foundation for
the success. Google expect that all the employees and broad members to know and follow the
codes of this organization.
Soul of Dell focus on the type of organization it inspires to become which generally
serves as a guide for various action around the world. This organization focus on attracting loyal
customers by giving superior experience at a high value (Singh, Iglesias and Batista-Foguet,
2012). Dell is committed to provide direction of relationship, best quality of products and
services with a superior experience of various customers. Dell believes that the success of the
organization comes from the teamwork which can be achieved by creating a platform where
team members can easily learn and develop themselves.

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Apple is forced to provide highest value of standard for various kinds of social and
ethical conduct for various kind of responsibility. Apple requires its suppliers to work in
accordance with the various principles of Apple suppliers code of conduct. This code focus on
laws which draws the attention of the owners for advancing on the field of social and
responsibility related to environmental (Kim and Douai, 2012). When the differences generally
arise between standard and legal kinds of requirement the standard of stricter the generally
applied which generally works according to the law. This codes mainly focus on the supplier
conduct which generally works as per the rights labor and various kinds of law.
Employee of Facebook and other kinds of people performing the work is generally
known as Facebook Personnel which are generally expected to act lawfully, honestly, ethically
and is working in the best order to perform a large number of duties on the behalf of this
organization that is Facebook (Paris et al., 2013). This codes generally provides certain number
of codes which can be utilized. People who wants to analyze out the fact that whether their code
matches with the code can easily have an interaction with the various professional working in
this organization.
Among all of policies of code of conduct the policy of code of conduct of Facebook is
considered to be the greatest one. Apple code of policies is the easiest one read from all the code
of conduct of organization. Google has the strongest code of policies among the code of policies
of the major internet organization like Apple, Google, Facebook and Dell.

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Description of unethical conduction by various organization
Google
Copyright violation: Various kinds of attempts has been made regarding the including
of copyright materials in the various projects of google book without any kind of approval from
various holders of IP which may been documented.
Violation of electronic privacy: Google street is designed in such a way that they are
generally equipped with various kinds of Wi-Fi sniffer which generally collects information
about the locally available networks of Wi-Fi which is generally used for location service of
google. In very few cases it is seen that these sniffers can capture weak encrypted signals on the
traffic which may contain various kinds of confidential information like credential of login and
financial information (Alphabet Investor Relations. 2018). As a result, Google was fined around
twenty-five thousand dollars for interfering with investigation of FCC. But in the end google
decided that Google has done nothing in the capturing of various kinds of data.
Dell
Dell is considered to be most ethical organization among the major internet organization.
But still it has some few cases of unethical conduct like after the payment over the reregistration
date Dell forced one of its customer to pay full price in spite of providing customer discount
(McMullen and Apple, 2012). Dell promised to provide free service to this customer for next
five years they do not provide any kind of service for at the last phase of five years.
Apple
Apple depends on child slave labor for the manufacturing of their various kinds of
products. In many cases it is seen they forces labors to work in dangerous condition. Apple

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makes use of unsavory labor practice for building of iPhones, iPads, Mac and other kinds of
devices.
Working time of Apple is excessive which generally comes without a single day off
during the whole week and employees of this organization have to stand so long that their leg
will swell and they can hardly walk after the shift of 24 hours
(Apple, 2018). Around 140 employees of Apple were injured due to the fact they make
use of poisonous chemical which is used for cleaning the screen of iPhone.
Facebook
In the year of 2012, Facebook conducted a survey on nearly seventy thousand users and
the apology was made by Sheryl Sandberg who is considered to be the second most powerful
executive of Facebook (Slade and Prinsloo, 2013). The ultimate notion of this organization is
whether positive or negative word in various message of user can affect the positive or negative
content of in the various kinds of status update.
In some cases, it is seen that this report does not matches with the code of conduct policies of
organization and so the organization must look into this fact and should take necessary step and
in some cases it is it matches with codes of policies of various kinds of organization.
Tax paid in Australia by this organization
Google and Facebook pays around 16.6 million dollars and 3.3 million dollars as income
tax to the government of Australia. Apple pays around 128.2 million dollars as tax to the
government of Australia (Clarke, and Boersma, 2017). Previously this major internet
organization used to pay tax which was based on the profit which was earned on the business

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which is done in Australia but now as per the rules of Australian government they are shifting
the earned income.
Summary
From the above discussion it can be easily that the major internet organization like Apple,
Facebook, Google and Dell has code of policies which they claim to follow to a large extent. In
some cases, it is seen that they breach their codes of policies and there are must some
improvisation in the weak section of those organization. In some cases, it is seen that some of the
organization are better in following codes of policies than the other organization. It is highly
recommended to Apple to stop the usage of child labor for the practice for the manufacturing of
different kinds of products. After researching or analyzing the code of conduct in various
organization it is seen that the codes of conduct policies of Google are best and they follow it to
a large extent which has made them giant in the field of major internet organizations. In the
above pages of the report the survey of ten people regarding codes and conduct of four major
internet organization has been provided. Various codes and policies of each of the four
organization has been provided.

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References
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[Accessed 5 Jan. 2018].
Clarke, T. and Boersma, M., 2017. The governance of global value chains: Unresolved human
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Denecke, K., Bamidis, P., Bond, C., Gabarron, E., Househ, M., Lau, A.Y.S., Mayer, M.A.,
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Kosinski, M., Matz, S.C., Gosling, S.D., Popov, V. and Stillwell, D., 2015. Facebook as a
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