Search Engine and Ethics Assignment
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Added on 2021-05-30
Search Engine and Ethics Assignment
Added on 2021-05-30
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Running head: SERACH ENGINES AND ETHICSSERACH ENGINES AND ETHICSName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:
1SERACH ENGINES AND ETHICSIntroductionDifferent computer organizations including search engines are playing vital role inproviding the information to the people. Search engine giants such as Google , Yahoo havebecome one stop destination for accessing all the information about anything. It can be said theinnovations from the different computer organizations are making a virtual library for the accessof information in almost free of cost (Roberts, 2015). Computer organizations also includessocial media like Facebook. Nowadays almost everyone has a Facebook account which makesthe population of the Facebook equivalent to the population of any country. The vast use ofsocial media by the users raises the question about maintaining the ethical responsibilities andobligations of the computer organizations. The responsibilities are bigger for the search enginesand the social media as the have the privilege to maintain the world wide web. DiscussionThe advancement of technology has help to develop the information technology in alarger scale. The result of the growth of the information technology are innovation of advancedsearch engines , which can provide any relevant information about anything. The use of socialmedia is also significant as it is not only used for connecting the people around the world butalso it is helping to make the opinion of the people and a platform for expression thoughts of anyusers. In this context, it can be assumed that these search engines and the social medias shouldhave some ethical obligations so that they can deliver the purpose of their innovation properly.Recently, few of the incidents indicate that there should be some regulations and ruleswhich should be followed by all the search engines and the social media.
2SERACH ENGINES AND ETHICSThe digital footprint is one of the most discussed subjects in this context. Most of thesearch engines store the individual user data, so that they can deliver more customized service tothe users. This activity leads to track the user activity through the search engine. The questionrises about whether it is ethical to track the activity of the users as the searching done by the userin the internet is subject to privacy. The monitoring on the user activity may not be ethical as itviolates the privacy of the users.Another major ethical concern rises regarding the computer organization is related to theuse of social media. The main objective of social media is to develop the well managedcommunication between the people from different parts of the world. The user’s account in thesocial, media has the information about the user. The main responsibility of these social mediasites and organizations is to protect that information. These websites help to create publicopinion, so the websites should promote sustainability in the society (Harris & RobinsonKurpius, 2014). However, recently the news of information breaching form Facebook has comeinto the lime light. The private and confidential information about many facebook users havebeen disclosed , which is not a desirable news from this social media giant. Many of the expertsalso said that the spreading of wrong information is generated through the facebook which isconstraining to build the right opinion about any vital issue. The ethical implications regarding search engine can be categorized into six differentclusters: Problem of non-transparency, privacy consent, monitoring and surveillance, moralaccountability issues of the search engine companies, censorship, cyber security issues.
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