Facebook’s Scandal and How it Will Impact IT Professionals
It may not be shocking, but information technology has seen one of, if not its first, scandal of an IT company abusing its technology. In the last few weeks, it has come to light that Facebook has used its IT contractors and IT consultants to help a psychological study to be carried out on an unwitting 700,000 participants. The IT managers and others at Facebook are coming under fire now for having a blanket policy that seems to imply that any Facebook users could be included in such studies without their consent.
While the Facebook scandal is interesting, what is most relevant here is probably the bigger moral questions IT professionals are forced to think about now in relation to their IT jobs. What are the moral responsibilities that the IT world needs to uphold? What will IT companies owe its users? Questions like these will undoubtedly be debated hotly in the wake of the Facebook scandal and as technology continues to evolve.
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