Business Ethics

Technology, without any doubt, has changed our lives. If technology had such huge positive impact on our lives, we must also expect few setbacks. Deborah Johnson starts her argument with an incident about Gmail getting to know the contents of the email. This is up to the user to enable or disable the features like cookies through which the suggestions related to your similar searches will be displayed to us. Deborah is more concerned about the privacy whether it is in the grocery store, or an IT firm or in public spaces . I feel anything that is connected to the internet is vulnerable, whether it might be an individual or a company. Target, one of the leading superstores, has been breached for security with almost a billion dollar loss along with the credit card numbers of millions of customers and still we don't see customers avoiding target. It is how we are habituated these days even with the security and privacy compromised.

I agree that the concern about privacy on the Internet is increasingly becoming an issue of international dispute. Citizens are becoming concerned that the most intimate details of their daily lives are being monitored, searched and recorded. The greatest threat to privacy comes from the construction of e-commerce alone, and not from state agents. E-commerce is structured on the copy and trade of intimate personal information and therefore, a threat to privacy on the Internet.

Though we can disable cookies, Cookies also include the search vocabulary entered as well as the articles one reads over, and the amount of time one spends looking at a particular article. I feel the users are convinced that their actual identities were not being made public, consumers were pleased to accept this in exchange for the ease of navigating the web more efficiently.