preview

The Ethical Dilemmas Of Three Others Opinions For Smartphones

Better Essays

3 Others Opinions
(Rebecca Balebako, Abigail Marsh, Jialiu Lin, Jason I. H, Lor, 2014) they are mentioned in a research done at Carnegie Mellon University, about some interesting findings that may raise a dilemma for smartphone users who are mostly concerned about their privacy. The result of the survey conducted from number of app developers says that only a few of them had formal privacy and security training. When questioned about privacy policies implemented in their apps, one developer said, “I haven’t even read our privacy policy. I mean, it’s just legal stuff that’s required, so I just put in there.” This is the reality of many apps we are using in our smartphones. If an app’s privacy policy is there only for legal purposes, is …show more content…

I totally agree with this statement, as unless an app developer has been properly educated about privacy guidelines, we cannot totally expect them to follow the code of conducts related to it. Even that is other authors’ concern and mine, still developers have the responsibility to develop their professional knowledge according to the BCS code of conduct 2c and should only publish apps that give importance to user’s privacy. According to IEEE (Florian Pfarr, Thomas Buckel, Axel Winkelmann, 2014), a specific problem with cloud computing is that countries like China and Iran, which ignores human rights and deny the remedy, might have access to cloud servers with the intent of surveillance of prosecution. In addition, cloud service providers in the USA are legally bound by the patriot act to provide all customer data to the government of the US. The issue raised by these authors affects smartphone users even without their knowledge as most of the current smartphones are regularly, keeping backups in the cloud and apps like Google photos automatically upload the photos to the cloud unless you change the settings otherwise. Even it is not relevant to their countries, above-mentioned governments violate The Data Protection Act 1998 (UK) which upholds a person’s right to protect his/her data from others. As many cloud computing services supports online editing of office documents from any device, most businesspersons and students intend to use their smartphones or tabs to

Get Access