Question

Discuss privacy rights and whether there is an issue of privacy when information is posted voluntarily on the Internet.

Would using these sources for background checks involve any sort of discrimination?

Professor Harold Abelson has explained rights, privacy, and the Internet as follows:” In today’s online world, what your mother told you is true, only more so: people can really judge you by your friends.” In which school of ethical thought would you place Professor Abelson in relation to views on this question of the Internet and privacy

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Privacy rights of a person includes legal rights in which person is protected from external investigation or searches by outsider. the privacy right helps the person to protect their personal information or artifacts searched or taken by outside person. In US constitution, every citizen has right to privacy.

When the person posted their personal information like On FB then this created the privacy issue because person is voluntarily giving the access to another person to see and have their personal information. the person who understand privacy and wanted to give access to their friends or family they put privacy measures on internet like on FB or instagram their content is private and only seen by authorized people.

Yes, i think in employment, employer thinks that background checks are very important and they are if they are legal and does not make any hiring or firing decision based on the information found on internet. for example- if a person is politically affiliated and employees fire him for that then it would be illegal and discriminating.

If employer found that a new employee is having relationship with a same gender and it is posted on FB . employer fires him for his sexual orientation then it would be unethical and illegal also discriminating.

basing hiring decisions on what you found online can potentially be unlawful and prompt lawsuits. Any information employers find on the Internet that is protected by law, such as age or sexual orientation, may have to be declared and cannot be used to make hiring decisions so, i think background checks can lead to discrimination but it depends on employer he is doing background checks legally or illegally.

According to me, the thought of professor is related to deontological class of ethical theories states that people should adhere to their obliga- tions and duties when engaged in decision making when ethics are in play. i say this because, when professor said that People can really judge you by your friends means it shows the obligation and decisions taken by others to judge the person. if manager judge a person because employee has two or three friends on internet means person is not likable or introvert while a person who is most active and have thousands of friends then person can be judged as talkative person. it depends on the person's duties and actions to fulfill those obligations.

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