Internet Ethics

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This paper explains that, when it comes to internet ethics, even in the absence of legal requirements, businesses themselves must self-regulate consumer privacy. The author points out that Americans now consider the Internet to be a more important source of information than radio or television, yet they distrust its intrusive potential in their daily lives. The paper relates that, perhaps the only way to stop negative use of the internet is to prosecute those who disseminate financial and medical information obtained illegally or fraudulently and those who use such information against consumers, even if they did not obtain such information illegally.

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"Still, when Americans use something so vigorously and enthusiastically, they must trust the medium as ethical, correct? Yet despite these figures, two-thirds of the 2,096 Internet users and non-users polled believe that going online puts their privacy at risk. There is still a pervasive sense that their data may be sold or used for unscrupulous purposes, even while they use the Internet for innocent means. Thus, although Internet connections are ubiquitous to almost every workplace and home, the World Wide Web remain a tumultuous sea of uncharted ethical legal waters, in terms of consumer and user privacy as well as the regulatory issues regarding intellectual property that affect the content disseminated on the net."

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