Report about IT Ethics 2022

Running head: IT ETHICS
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Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Discussion............................................................................................................................2
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................4
References............................................................................................................................5
Appendix..............................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
Path is a well-known networking application which describes smart journal that helps in
sharing with life that an individual love. In the year 2010, the application was founded by Dave
Morin, ex-employee of Facebook.
In the coming pages of the report, this particular scenario has been analyzed from the
perspective of ethical theories. The report is completely based on privacy and application related
issues for path application. A visual representation has been provided with respect to the case
study using MindMup tool.
Discussion
The four ethical theories have been described below in details like
Utilitarianism: This particular theory is based on overall ability of an individual to
analyze the effect of action. To a utilitarian, the choice which has the biggest benefit is the
people which is correct in terms of ethics. Utilitarianisms are generally of two kinds that is act
utilitarianism and rule utilitarianisms (University, 2019). Act utilitarianism is all about defining
the choice of a person who can benefit from it. It is all about neglecting the personal feeling and
social constraints like law. Both act and rule utilitarianisms has certain number of drawbacks.
Uncertainty can lead easily lead to unexpected benefits which can make the decision of
utilitarian decision as an unethical one (Laczniak & Murphy, 2019). Path application encounter
certain number of privacy issues where the application collected information without any
permission from user end. The collected details of user were stored in unencrypted way in the
Path server.