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The Use Of Spyware Into The Diabetes Foundation Website

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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.
The first question presented in the case is whether or not Jake should embed the spyware. If Jake decides to embed the spyware then he will be deceiving the Diabetes Foundation by making them believe that the survey does exactly what they want, when really it does more. Although, as stated in the book, the survey tool does not explicitly state that the donors’ anonymity will be protected, the ownership rights over confidential information of the Diabetes Foundation is protected by their right to informational privacy and since the survey is the property of the foundation so are the

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