. Risk to Internet Privacy In today's technological world, millions of individuals are subject to privacy threats (Bamberger & Mulligan, 2011)
In late 2007, Facebook launched the Beacon program where user rental records were released on the public for friends to see. This initiative was cancelled, though, following a lawsuit from a nonprofit foundation that challenged Facebook's right to aggregate and disseminate personal information in this fashion (Brodkin, 2009)
These trends have created an entirely new set of expectations for privacy, especially when people are in public places. Although surveillance cameras have become almost ubiquitous following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the use of digital cameras in cell phones and other wireless mobiles devices has become commonplace and the chances of digital images finding their way into the global information stream has increased as a result (Buchholz & Rosenthal, 2006)
These issues have become even more salient because of the proliferation of social networking sites as discussed further below. Privacy within social networking sites Currently, there is a wide array of social media networks available, including social sharing sites such as YouTube and Flickr and social networks such as Linkedln and Facebook (Hensel & Deis, 2010)
Other problems of ethics look into confidentiality, property rights, equality and access, reliability and risks, value of life and use of power. Personal responsibility, nevertheless, can be thought to be the most productive way to apply OSNs (Huff & Martin, 1995)
Our activities include: playing, working, exchanging information, and sending messages, among others. Computer networks have led to development of new offline activities and new kinds of problems which have previously come up (Johnson, 1997)
Ethics is neither a religion, nor is it based on any religious beliefs. This statement is due to the fact that ethics does not center on the illogical notions of people based on individual values or culture, and also ignores the approval, prejudice and unpredictability acquired from people's religions and the law (Kesar & Rogerson, 1998)
Your opinion on what is right or wrong on these issues is now a matter of concern due to the evolution of computing, which has made it possible to implant computer chips. The new usage of computer innovations bring about the need for policy vacuums to be filled with suitable policies, which should be logically justified (Moor, 2001)
Some of the promises have been fulfilled, while some have not been completely achieved. Among the main reasons for that is the decrease in people's faith in the system (Sund, 2007)