{"id":5,"date":"2012-09-12T18:40:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T01:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teresaliao\/?p=5"},"modified":"2013-09-22T22:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T05:54:41","slug":"business-ethics-compromising-whilst-on-the-hunt-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teresaliao\/2012\/09\/12\/business-ethics-compromising-whilst-on-the-hunt-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Ethics &#8211; Compromising Whilst on the Hunt for Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">As in the article <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/stop-collecting-health-numbers-sasktel-told-211556965.html?_esi=1\">Stop collecting health numbers, SaskTel told<\/a> demonstrates, identity theft is still an ongoing issue in society. The Canadian telephone company\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sasktel.com\/about-us\/index.html?Link=FooterAboutSaskTel&amp;campaign=Home\">SaskTel<\/a> , based in Regina, Saskatchewan, was found to have breached the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A customer was surprised the company had their personal information: health card number, as well as SIN number without their permission. The company claims to need two pieces of information (such as SIN number or a driver\u2019s license) for credit worthiness. The fact that they had the customer\u2019s information without having asked for it is quite terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>Since the incident, SaskTel had attempted to clean up their mess by implementing and improving rules on customer privacy, such as allowing customers to pre-pay their bills if they do not wish to share two pieces of information for credit worthiness.<\/p>\n<p>How did they get these private pieces of information? For what purpose do they need this information for?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Companies exploiting people\u2019s personal information is just one part of a constant battle with business ethics. Conflicts of interests arise \u2013 trying to earn as much money as possible just isn\u2019t going to cut it in reality.<\/p>\n<p>How can we protect ourselves, and\u00a0 our businesses, and attend to each of our individual interests? Each one of us share a part in a group or organization. The biggest organization, is the global village. We all must have responsibilities for a functioning, balanced world. Seemingly miniscule decisions makes a huge difference if added up together. It changes situations completely.<br \/>\n<em>For example, if every Canadian decided to eat vegetarian on Mondays, it would equate to being 1\/7 of the population being vegetarian!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Massive corporations are treated as \u201cpeople\u201d in the courtrooms. From observing the personality of this \u201cindividual\u201d, we can conclude that the corporate individual is a sociopath. Without being able to tell the difference between right and wrong is not only harmful to others, it is also self-destructive.<\/p>\n<p>As in the SaskTel example, companies must compromise their ways to fit business ethics, otherwise, taking advantage of others will only corrode the balance of the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in the article Stop collecting health numbers, SaskTel told demonstrates, identity theft is still an ongoing issue in society. The Canadian telephone company\u00a0 SaskTel , based in Regina, Saskatchewan, was found to have breached the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. \u00a0A customer was surprised the company had their personal information: health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14900,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7289,811445],"tags":[7982],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-introduction-to-business","tag-comm-101"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teresaliao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teresaliao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teresaliao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teresaliao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teresaliao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teresaliao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teresaliao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teresaliao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teresaliao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teresaliao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}