What Are Some Internet Privacy Ethical Issues?
Some ethical issues concerning Internet privacy and ethical issues include security measures to protect online shopping transactions, email and social media visits. The ethics of Internet privacy also include informing users of their right of consent before companies collect their personal information for marketing purposes.
With the advent of cyberterrorism and theft, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must provide law enforcement all data that can aid in identifying and capturing cyber criminals. Accordingly, Federal Communication Commission (FCC) regulations mandate that no Internet transaction is completely private.
In order to satisfy both ethics and the law, Internet providers must have security measures in place as part of due diligence to protect users’ personal information – address, credit card number, social security number, etc. Perhaps just as important, providers also promise that they and their employees won’t spy on users’ email, for instance, just because they can.
Further, online marketers that gather user data must also have ethical and legal instruments in place that inform users how their data will be used if they consent to have it collected. Included in such agreements are options for users to give their consent for these marketers to sell names, phone numbers and other personal information to other online partners.
