This case study addresses the issue of a group of hackers that calls themselves “the impact team.” The group disagreed with the website Ashley Madison and hacked into their system and retrieved private information. Ashley Madison was a website that charged individuals money to engage in extramarital affairs. The impact team had contacted the people behind Ashley Madison, Avid Life Media and informed them that they were expected to shut down their website and that they would have thirty days to do so. However, the website was not taken down, and the impact team released customers’ information from the website. Personal information including names, credit card numbers, addresses, fees paid on the website and initial sign up dates was released …show more content…
Many consequences that occurred out of this hack can support the idea that the impact team were morally wrong in revealing the personal information of people on the website. First, the Ashley Madison customers were put into a situation in which most of their personal information was revealed. Members of the military, government and other higher positions were also revealed to be participating on the website. This release of information caused suicides and harmed relationships and families of those members who were found to be participating in and paying for Ashley Madison’s service. This hack also caused many individuals’ reputations to be destroyed as a result of the leaked information. Therefore, the members of the company, Avid Life Media, customers of Ashley Madison and families and friends all seemed to be affected by this hack. Moreover, the principle of utility introduces the idea that the Ashley Madison hackers were morally wrong in revealing the customers’ personal information because their actions created many negative consequences of the group of people involved. Moreover, the principle of utility states that the consequences for an action will determine whether something is to be viewed as morally good or bad and since the hackers brought about many consequences for so many people involved, their actions are not morally …show more content…
With this, individuals should be treated equally. According to Kant’s categorical imperative, the impact team was morally wrong because they released information to the public in order to shut down Ashley Madison. In their opinion, the impact team felt that a company should not profit from people paying to have extramarital affairs. With this view, the hackers dumped the customers’ personal information in order to follow through with the threat that was made to Avid Life Media to release personal information. Although the impact team achieved their goal in having Ashley Madison shut down, they did something morally wrong in relation to Kant’s categorical imperative by using the customers and their personal information as a weapon to achieve their goal of having the website shut
NOW COMES, Stephanie Smith, the minor child in the above-captioned matter, and hereby moves this Court for a finding that the Department of Children and Families has abused its discretion, because the Department acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner, by removing Stephanie from the prison nursery, where she resides with her biological mother, Sofia Smith, and placing Stephanie with her paternal grandparents.
The case was brought to DCFS attention when a reporter stated on 7/11/17, OPWI attempted to obtain an emergency order of protection on behalf of Kiara (age 7). Reportedly Ashley (mother) is actively using METH and also methodone she gets from a clinic, and is also involved in prostitution. Ashley told OPWI that Ashley ''can't wait outside for the bus to go to drug court because she's done bad things to people (robbed people, committed home invasion, taken people's money and drugs) and these people are after her.'' Reporter states that one of these people came to OPWI's house looking for Ashley and scared Kiara. Ashley recently got out of jail, stayed with OPWI for a couple of days, left last Friday telling Kiara she would be back in a couple of hours, didn't return
It was 2006 when Emma Sanchez was filing paperwork to be legalized in the U.S when she had to go to an appointment with immigration authorities at the U.S Consulate in Cuidad Juarez. And what happened next may have been the worst moment of her life. “Authorities told her she would be prohibited from returning home from Vista for 10 years, despite the fact that Paulsen, 51, is a U.S citizen and a Marine veteran” (Tatiana Sanchez). Situations similar to Emma Sanchez has happened before-many times in fact. According to the article “Deported Mothers Make New Lives in Tijuana Separated families part of the debate over U.S immigration” by Tatiana Sanchez, “In the first half of 2014, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 22,088 unauthorized
Frank Addante got his motivation to work from financing his college life in the first years. He worked on his own, sold and installed car alarms and automatic starters. From this time on he continued to earn money through ad-hoc jobs to make his way through college, but he was always conscious for good ideas, which he could transform into businesses. This chance was given when he installed some high-speed communication lines for an office where two mar-keting companies had their headquarters. When the owners of the two companies were argu-ing about any new ideas, they came up with a “search engine” for the internet. Addante was listening to them and came up with his own interpretation of the “search
Our focus now turns to a petition posted to the UK Government’s petition website, “Free childcare for 2 year olds to include parents who are both working full time” by Emily Bignell where we will assess the circumstances and audience in which it was made, and how it compares to the stylistic traits exhibited in Nakiryowa. First, the context of Bignell’s petition is different from Nakiryowa, with Bignell having posted on a governmental website whereas Narikawa on a public, unaffiliated website. Unlike the unset numerical standards on change.com, the UK site posits that only “at 100,000 signatures, [will] this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament. Since the petition can only be signed by UK citizens, working class parents in the UK stand to be likely supporters and beneficiaries of Bignell’s petition, in its pursuit to convince the UK government to pass helpful legislation.
This case was a very significant ruling for special education evident with numerous studies positing that the ruling of this 1982 case was perhaps the most important special education decision by the Supreme Court and to this day, continues to have a profound effect on the education of students with disabilities. Additionally, this was the first time that the Supreme Court had to interpret portions of the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA 1990), which was then the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA) as it relates to what constituted a free and appropriate education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment (LRE).
For many years, the death penalty has been one of the most controversial topics in many debates all across the globe. In the case of Laura Wilcox, who was murdered by a mentally ill patient at a hospital, the death penalty was irrelevant in her parent’s opinion, despite losing their only daughter. The man was found not guilty because the courts ruled insanity was the reason for this awful tragedy and instead of being sent to death row, he was instated into a mental hospital. The Wilcox’s say they have always opposed the death penalty and say they always will oppose the death penalty. Their moral values are far more important to them than getting revenge against a man who cannot bring their daughter back. They view the death penalty for what
In this case Jake Markos is the moral agent and is contemplating on whether or not he should embed spyware into the Diabetes Foundation website that allows his company, ALAC marketing, to collet email addresses and use them to market a product. Other moral agents presented in this case are Nathan Brook, Jake’s boss, Maia Herrick, Nathan’s assistant manager, and ALAC Marketing. In this case, ALAC is the least important moral agent because it possess vicarious moral sensitivity and responsiveness thus, if we examine the sensitivity and responsiveness of its individual employees we would understand ALAC’s position regarding Jake’s dilemma. This is also, in part, due to the fact that corporations employ highly organized holistic decision-making and although corporations are morally accountable it does not mean that individuals who are employed by the corporation are not also morally accountable.
With the growing threat of cyber-terror crimes it is no secret that the victims and potential victims of these crimes would be uneasy. The short terms affects could include loss of valuable information, money, damage to brand and company reputation
The agencies employed by governments to police the web in order to protect the vulnerable have seen an increase in child pornography and online fraud. The speed at which information can be distributed and the number of people that can be reached attracts those that are intent on causing harm. The term “cybercrime” is becoming more widely used. The financial gains that can be made and the anonymity the internet can provide, make the virtual world of cyberspace a haven for criminals. Although the internet has huge benefits for information gathering and social networking, in the wrong hands it can cause harm to the vulnerable and criminals are able to vanish into the underground with the use of false identities that are hard to track online.
In the last few years, the number of cyber-attacks happening in the world today has increased significantly and it is something that is not going to go away any time soon. In the most recent case that has happened, a group called the Impact Team has claimed to have complete access to Avid Life Media’s database for the website Ashley Madison. Throughout this entire case there are very few things that are ethical and legal. Besides, Avid Life Media pursuing the hackers for stealing private data, the only other action that I believe falls into this category are users pursuing legal action against Ashley Madison now for not fully deleting their data. If Ashley Madison had actually deleted most of their user’s data and only kept the metadata,
The potential of violations can come from numerous sources (Lawrence & Weber, 2011) (Consumer Information). Recently Equifax had a data breach of their customer’s personal information. The hackers accessed the names, social security numbers, birthdates, and addresses of 142 million American consumers (Consumer Information). This is frightening and happens more often that we think. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers executive, ”Cybercrime has emerged as a formidable threat. Over the years millions have fallen victim to theses attacks. In a survey of 583 U.S. companies, 90 percent said that hackers breached their company’s computers over the last twelve months (Lawrence & Weber, 2011). Cyber crimes occur when hackers attempt to damage or destroy a computer network or system of company’s data. Criminals will use one of the most harmful systems around. This system is called a zombie. A zombie is
For some individuals, hacking can be a hobby they like to undertake in order to analyze how many computers or the systems they can gain access to. While hacking seems harmless, there are those who do this vice maliciously so that they can get access to customer/ client information, the details of credit cards, their passwords, email addresses and identity fraud (Riem, 2001). Having this unauthorized access to these information warrants an arrest, and should the criminals be found, they are liable for their crimes.
Some people lose their moral intuition when using computer technology because they assume that their actions do not have real consequences to others. The lack of physicality on the internet can alter one’s ability to empathize with other, which makes them feel that cybercrime morally acceptable. The moral imperatives in the ACM code of ethics can help people make moral choices with computer technology.
Their operations are very slick and swift such that stolen data is quickly exploited within seconds of being submitted by unsuspecting victims. Since 2005, over 400,000 databases have been compromised since 2005, and thousands more have gone unnoticed or reported. About 40 percent of those involved in IT security have no fixed figure on the number of hackings their companies have experienced. One of the rapidly increasing areas of ecommerce is in the use of web-based applications to replace traditional over-the counter transactions. Hackers have expectedly, latched on. According to a study by Gartner, over 75 percent of Internet security breaches are due to flaws and loop holes in software. The reason for this is that, applications are normally designed and put together quickly to get the system running, and no time is spend analyzing and assessing security implications. As computer hackers continue to step up their operations in line with technology advancements, the securities and future industry recorded a 150 percent increase in the number of suspicious activities detected by their systems. During the same time, research carried out at the University of Maryland indicated that a computer connected to the Internet was subject to an attempted hack every 40 seconds. The battle between ecommerce websites and consumers wages on, according to an independent analyst, ‘consumers are losing a tug of war.’ Simon Smelt, an economist who runs a survey company