What are key ethical issues this industry is facing?
Telecommunication services face a variety of ethical issues and those concerning privacy are ceirtainly one of the most important. To start with the privacy of customers is at stake as many hackers target personal infromation such as personal contacts, credit card numbers, phone numbers, etc which can later be sold to advertising companies and for many other malicious purposes. Another issue concerning privacy and ethics is the protection of data location; the increasing use of smarphones and other GPS enabled cellular phones which allow tracking an individual's location have put at risk the territorial privacy of cellular phone users.
What is an example of ethic challenges in the industry?
Recently Verizon has sued the Federal Communications Commission in complain of the implementation of "network neutrality" rules which restrict telecommunications companies from discriminating against internet content and services. Because the implementation of "network neutrality" rules would force telecommunication service providers to be neutral with all internet content, providers would no longer be able to favour their own content and programs above those of their competitors. This ethical issue which concerns business competition ethics is also being discussed at congress
What is an example of ethic challenges in the industry?
Recently Verizon has sued the Federal Communications Commission in complain of the implementation of "network neutrality" rules which restrict telecommunications companies from discriminating against internet content and services. Because the implementation of "network neutrality" rules would force telecommunication service providers to be neutral with all internet content, providers would no longer be able to favour their own content and programs above those of their competitors. This ethical issue which concerns business competition ethics is also being discussed at congress
The internet will have to be further defined by the government soon to appropriately handle some of the conflicts which are inevitably going to come; like the one you mentioned above. Internet property and likes are going to have to be explicitly defined to protect the large amounts of money invested in it.
ReplyDeleteI imagine there will be many conflict to come that will test our understanding of the internet, its use/purpose, and personal property on it.
Great answers! Do you have any supporting articles to either of your points?
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