More and more on the news we hear about the scare of companies and foreign agents collecting and selling our data from using websites or services. Many companies have even responded citing the need for the data in data science and government ventures and are safe for users. Although these companies have put forward the reasoning for why the collection of private data from computers is safe is something to note but I believe it is also very important to take into account the ethical issues of such a practice. I believe that breaking the ethical issues into social problems and dilemmas could help highlight those issues. The four issues I find most impactful from the collection of data is that of the racial, socio economic, political, and defense kind. Firstly, to speak on the ramifications of racial division I believe one must first go to the companies that may take data relating to race and sell that data to politicians who may in turn use the data to further redlining of housing districts and gerrymandering based on racial demographics to gain a win on a campaign, the most devastating thing about this is that the collection may not be known to most of these communities. Another such problem with the collection of data in terms of ethics is what it could mean for lower income or underfunded areas, many companies who collect private data also own smaller companies that may target lower class neighborhoods for business and as such may use the data to consolidate all business to those areas as a way of stamping out competition among residents of these areas. Thirdly, as touched on previously the political impact of data collection could be significant as it could increase the frequency and difficulty of election fraud or espionage due to the ability for parties to subpoena certain information that may have been private previously to slander someone. Lastly, it is most important to talk about defense as many companies who collect data are not impervious to data breaches themselves and if these companies collect and store data that data could be lost at the push of a button and sold to unsavory figures all around the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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