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  • Essay / Ethics Report: Invasion of Privacy - 1957

    IntroductionThis report consists of two major issues currently facing IRCL, ethics and sustainability. Regarding both issues, explanations and solutions are discussed in depth as to how the company should proceed moving forward.I – Ethical ReportQuestion1Mason (1986) observed that two forces threaten our privacy : the unprecedented advances in information technology and its superior ability to capture, calculate and communicate information and the value of the information to people who can use it for their own benefit. Jenny's unprofessional conduct in hacking sensitive and confidential information on the ERP system which will not only contain competitive business strategies, secret experimental formulas and customer details, constitutes an invasion of privacy. Mason (1986) suggested that with the increasing collection of data, there is a strong reliance on the accuracy of the information. For information used by medical researchers, agricultural research, weather forecasting, inaccuracies in the information could have devastating effects. As in Jenny's case, secretly stealing the secret formula of a new cosmetic product that she has no knowledge or experience of could be dangerous to consumers if the product were released to the market. The secret experimental formula that has the potential to revolutionize acne treatment and skin care may not be finalized or stable enough for human use. His action of selling the formula to a competing organization could jeopardize Bonson & Bonson's business and reputation, with legal action being the worst case scenario. If the product does not prove popular with consumers and Bonson & Bonson's suffers financial losses; who should then be held responsible; Could Bonson & Bonson sue the IRCL...... middle of document ......ent [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.strategicinventorymanagement.com/1/post/2011/11 /pursuing-sustainability- in-retail-best-green-practices.html [Accessed 7 May 2014].• Sustainable Packaging Coalition (2011) “Defining sustainable packaging” A GreenBlue project [ONLINE] Available at: http://sustainablepackaging.org/uploads /Documents/Definition%20of%20Sustainable%20Packaging.pdf [Accessed 7 May 2014].• The Australian Computer Society (ACS), 2012, code of ethics and case studies• Underwood , A. (2000, January). Professional ethics in the context of security and privacy – the perspective of a national IT company. In Information Security and Privacy (pp. 477-486). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. • Woodward, Belle, Nancy L. Martin and Thomas Imboden. “Extension and validation of the PAPA framework”. Journal of Information Systems Education9.3 (2011): 28.