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Assignment 8

Imagining doing business with a group of people who see privacy from a vastly different perspective than I do, I would first determine what their rationale is for holding their perspective. The hypothetical is difficult to answer, because there are so many possibilities of perspectives that can be held by myself as well as the group of people that I am doing business with. In business ethics, “business persons are advised that when in Rome they ought do as the Romans do—as in etiquette, so too in ethics. (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 4.0).” However, this posture may lead to morally repugnant practices. The question must then be raised, “under what conditions ‘everyone's doing it’ is a moral justification? (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 4.0).” An example of this would be, if I were doing business with a country where it was standard practice to remit data to the government without knowledge or consent of the users. Though it has happened in the US, most would consider this ethically wrong, even if it was the standard in the country that I was doing business with. I would probably try to respectfully negotiate with the company. If I were unable to make progress through negotiations; I would try to ensure that all users of the software were fully aware of the privacy policy.

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