Project management and the professional

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Project management and the
professional

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Executive summary
Practising ethical theories and principles in business is important to ensure business
reputation and growth. But, some of the companies have key resources that hinders
individual’s privacy and that is strongly unaccepted by the principles of ethics. The company
Clearview’s unethical way of collecting photographs and other information of billions of
people is compared with industry codes of conducts to acknowledge impact of growing
technology on people, ethics, and law.

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Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
2. Stakeholders ethics.................................................................................................................3
2.1 Ethical issues associated with using Clearview facial recognition software....................3
2.2 Stakeholders and their roles..............................................................................................5
2.2.1 Stakeholders...............................................................................................................5
2.2.2 Viewpoint of stakeholders in regards to ethical issues..............................................6
2.2.3 Ethical principle and viewpoint of stakeholders........................................................6
2.3 My view regarding ethical issues of Clearview company................................................7
2.4 Comparison of my viewpoint and stakeholder’s viewpoint.............................................8
3. International codes of conducts/ codes of ethics....................................................................8
3.1 Code of conducts..............................................................................................................8
3.2 Comparison of codes of conducts.....................................................................................9
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10

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1. Introduction
In this century of fast-growing technologies, humans are surrounded with innovative
technical things and services. It has been a perpetual topic of debates since decades about the
impact of swiftly changing technologies in human’s life. Technologies has become so
advanced in means of communication, automation, and surveillance that it has interfered
public privacy sector. Also, the rapid growth in technology has raised concern of ethical and
legal issues. Mainly privacy is a strong issue that come up with growing technology by
considering internet’s pervasive nature in daily lives of humans. Invasion of privacy by
technology companies like Clearview AI helps government and commercial operators to
ensure safety of people at risk by observing them. This is one of the few applications that can
be considered in positive impacts of the advanced technologies that hinders privacy.
Clearview AI company is a technology company of America that deals with face recognition
software. The software is used by government and commercial agencies to get information
that are scrapped from billions of photographs of people without their knowledge.
In this report ethical issues related to invasion of privacy by Clearview AI company has been
discussed. Governments and commercial groups using technologies that infringe rights of
citizen’s privacy is a strong ethical and legal issue. Ethical issues that lies with the company
is discussed while considering stakeholders ethics and code of conducts for software
industries.
2. Stakeholders ethics
2.1 Ethical issues associated with using Clearview facial recognition software
Personal privacy
The main ethical issue that comes with usage of Clearview facial recognition software is
privacy. As the software provides information of individuals by using its database containing