Business ethics issues are reported on regularly in the media. Conduct a thorough investigation of the many incidents that have been reported in the past few weeks or months and do the following: 1. List the incidents that you have uncovered, and identify the main issues and criticisms in each case. 2. To what extent is it possible to classify these as ethical as opposed to legal violations? 3. Which companies have been implicated in each case? Are these large or small companies, local or international in scope? Explain your findings. 4. What are the possible causes of such incidents? 5. What is the possible remedy or are possible remedies to forestall such abuses?
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Incidents and Main Issues: - Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: The main issue was the misuse of personal data of millions of Facebook users without their consent. The criticism was mainly about privacy invasion and manipulation of user data for political Show more…
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