Gmail, an email service provided by Google
Google has been under fire recently regarding their privacy policies on their email service, Gmail. With over 425 million active users on Gmail, Google admits to tracking down, processing, and selling your supposedly private emails to a multitude of ad companies.
Google argues that people should already be aware that their emails are being recorded, and that they “[shouldn’t] expect privacy” when using their services. Google claims that they are not the only email service that does this. Is privacy in social media becoming obsolete?
Although there are privacy laws, Google reasons that they do not break any of them.
In today’s North American society, ethics in business poses a greater concern than it ever has before. This is because in theory, the social sustainability ideology of ethics interferes with the capitalistic views of business. The internet, albeit a new industry, already carries along with it new ethical problems, more formally known as cyberethics. This issue begs to ask the question on whether older more traditional values can still be seen as functional when put up against new innovations.
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