ACC 557 Week 6 DQ1
"Information Protection and Privacy" Please respond to the following:
Based on the e-Activity, evaluate the circumstances that contributed to the privacy violation, the consequence to the company to the breach, and management’s response to the breach, indicating the appropriateness of the response. Suggest how the company may have presented the breach and / or responded differently once the breach was discovered. Provide support for your rationale.
Assess the ethical considerations for information privacy, indicating how these considerations should be addressed with a corporate policy. Provide support for your rationale.
Facebook is the largest social networking website in today’s era. It has become popular since 2004. The mission of Facebook is to connect friends, family, and business associates (“What is Facebook?” 2003). One of the circumstance that Facebook faced regarding privacy violation was a situation of five people who have filed a suit against Facebook, charging the social-networking company with violating California privacy laws and false advertising.
Facebook Users assume that personal information and photos that they post on the site are shared only with authorized friends, the suit, filed in the Superior Court for California in Orange County, says. "Users may be unaware that data they submit may be extracted and then shared, stored, licensed or downloaded by other persons or third parties they have not expressly authorized," the suit reads (Gohring 2009).
Facebook responded by ignoring the suit. However, Facebook has updated their terms and agreement on their website’s privacy agreement. The change was to essentially claim
