The Santa Clara University’s scholar ranks the NSA’s widespread surveillance network to be the number one business ethics issue happened in 2013. Because many world famous firms were involved in, like Google, Apple, Facebook and it actually made a big wave.
I don’t think that was the companies’ own fault or I don’t think we should blame these companies much. It was a kind of dilemma situation for them. The NSA have to protect the country including the information security and these enterprises have to coordinate with them. Individuals are dissatisfied with the losing of privacy although these information are used to analyze or assess by the government. It seems that there is a contradiction between respecting the citizens’ right and protecting the information security but I think a conclusion could be drawn by the two sides’ compromise. I believe people will understand why the NSA should do this if the relevant department declare that it is a new policy before the issue happened.
By the way,Google and Facebook these kinds of huge internet companies could make many of their users profile by using the information they have got. Selling them to the small companies who do not want to spend much money on research to find their target market. Anyway, this incident has brought bad impact on the government and these companies’ reputation. They should take some action to recover this kind of embarrassing situation.
