Analysis of Facebook Data Ethics and Referencing Importance

This report investigates the ethical considerations surrounding Facebook's data practices, focusing on the Cambridge Analytica scandal and its implications. The analysis explores Facebook's failures in addressing data misuse, the impact of these actions on public trust in social media, and the potential outcomes had the harvested information been used for commercial purposes instead of political ones. Furthermore, the report examines the ethical guidelines that should be established to govern future data usage by social media platforms. The second part of the report discusses the importance of referencing in academic writing, highlighting its role in acknowledging sources, supporting arguments, and providing credibility to research. The report concludes with an overview of the need for improved data protection measures and the value of proper referencing in academic work.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
QUESTION 1...................................................................................................................................3
1. Values that Facebook failed to consider when they first became aware of the issue.............3
2. The way keeping Cambridge Analytica on Facebook affect public trust social media as
whole...........................................................................................................................................3
3. Assessing whether decision be different if company had used the information harvested for
commercial rather than political use...........................................................................................4
4. Ethical critical or guidance that should be established to accept or reject future usage of
data from the social media platform............................................................................................4
QUESTION 2...................................................................................................................................5
P.5. 3 Sources why referencing is important when it comes to academic writing......................5
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTION

In this investigation, this assignment describe about to the process of providing
documentation and safely use of Facebook app and furnish an option in the app by which our
important data could be saved effectively. Furthermore,. This study define about referencing is
most vital par of a research which indicate you to write wide range on a topic.
QUESTION 1
1. Values that Facebook failed to consider when they first became aware of the issue
Cambridge analytical chief executives Alexander Nix had signed a deal with one of the
Kisinski's Cambridge colleagues, lecturer Aleksandr Kogan for a private commercial venture,
separate from King's duties at the university but breeching Kisinki's works as week. Facebook
announced on Friday that it was suspending Cambridge Analytica and Kogan from the platform
pending information over misuse of data related with the project. Facebook denies that the
harvesting of tens of millions of profiles by GSR and Cambridge Analytica was a data breach.
Facebook has noticed that the App has been utilised for wrong use in the project completion and
this is made for create interaction among friends (Cemaloglu and Filiz, 2010). In case of
Cambridge collage lecturer case, Facebook noticed that their app's data in not being used fairly in
the organisation. This is made for make interaction with friends only. Facebook considered that,
they must need to furnish appropriate securities options in their app in order to effectively protect
each person data appropriately. In case of Cambridge analytical case, they lecturer of the collage
is misusing of Facebook data related to this project. So Facebook must need to give security
option in their app so that each Facebook user can not misuse of other person data while using
this app.
2. The way keeping Cambridge Analytica on Facebook affect public trust social media as whole
In case of Cambridge Analytical case, the misuses of data related to the Cambridge
projection, in this case of misuse of data on Facebook app and misuse of confidential data related
to the projection within the university, the academic has been paid for development of Facebook
app which is related to personality quiz and Cambridge Analytical paid for people to take it,
Advertising on platform such as Amazon's mechanical Truck. The misuse of information on
social media can break down the trust of people on the app, who is using Facebook app to share
their important information to each others among friends (Cottrell, 2013). It makes totally
negative impact on the public trust of social media user who use this app at regular basis. Each
people in across the world d use Facebook app effectively and trust on that in terms of sharing

their profiles, photos and other confidential data which is needed to be in privacy. In case of
Cambridge Analytical case, these circumstances make negative impact on overall social market
and use of Facebook app as well.
3. Assessing whether decision be different if company had used the information harvested for
commercial rather than political use
In case of information harvested of the projection of Cambridge analytical, in this case,
the app recorded the results of each quiz, collected data from the taker's Facebook account and
crucially extracted the data of their Facebook friend as well, the results were paired with each
quiz- taker Facebook data to seek out pattern and build an algorithm to predict for other
Facebook users. In case of Cambridge analytical, Facebook announced on Friday that it was
suspending Cambridge analytical and Kogan from the platform information over misuse of data
related to this project (Harris and Ashton, 2011). Facebook denies that the harvesting of ens of
millions of profiles by GSR and Cambridge Analytical was a data beach. In case of Facebook
decision towards the information harvesting commercial rather that political use in the case, in
this case suspending of Cambridge Analytical and Kogan which must be in this form, because of
misuse of data in case of unfair and illegal activities according to legislative provision of the
country. Hence, it could be said that in case of information harvest used for commercial then the
decision of Facebook remain same as per before.
4. Ethical critical or guidance that should be established to accept or reject future usage of data
from the social media platform
In case of Cambridge analytical, Facebook need to provide ethical critical guideline in
order to establishment to accept the rejection of future usage of data form the social media
platform. Some ethical guideline which Facebook need to establish critically which is, misuse of
company's resources at online platform. They need to provide privacy system in their app by
which they could protect their confidential data within online platform and appropriately share
their confidential data at the workplace efficiently (Raju, 2014). Apart from it, Facebook need to
provide guidelines to use of Facebook app relevantly and record the maintenance of the company
so that each of them would be able to safely use of this app and data misuse case could be
reduced efficiently.

QUESTION 2
P.5. 3 Sources why referencing is important when it comes to academic writing
 Referencing is play vital part in each research, because of several parts in your research,
the referencing allows researcher to acknowledge the contribution of specific writer of
the Article which helped them in their academic research in within the collages.
Referencing also helped researcher in their research to get appropriate idea and thoughts
about to appropriate topic and this helps researcher to write at broad information about to
specific topic on their research topic (Shapiro, 2011). In case of sitting work in a specific
topic, a student can draw a million of topic and ideas on a particular topic and you can
also get arguments on your topic which is written by other scholar on this topic which
provides the values by which researcher can broad analysis on your topic efficiently.
 Referencing is a way which furnish some essential evidence by which researcher could
support their research on particular topic effectively. With the help of referencing, you
are making marking of the person who is highly aware on their topic which could help
researcher to done their work efficiently.
 Proper utilisation of referencing must be in accurate form in your research work so that,
their reader and evaluator could easily excess the informing which they want to say in
their research. Moreover, researchers are required to ensure that referencing in accurate
from which make keep record and all the resources which they have utilised in your
research.
CONCLUSION
From the above analysis is that Facebook app need to be updated properly in their
services in order to protect their users confidential information in more effective manner so that
each of its customers can safely use of their services in the business effectively. Moreover,
referencing is most helpful for the writer on a topic at broad level.

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