Based on a recent article from the Globe and Mail, Facebook Inc. is improving upon its privacy setting by forcing everyone to go through the checkups they’ve created to protect user’s privacy, which can be related to business ethics. As we know from the past, Facebook Inc. has lost quite large amount of customers due to the unprotection of people’s privacy, which is considered unethical because the customer’s personal information is stolen by many advertising companies and related business associations to collect information from their target markets in order to make more profits. So back then Facebook itself failed to meet the global standardization and also failed to obey the law. Many consumers have sued Facebook Inc. due to consumer safety and its violation of human rights. Fortunately, the company has realized the negative impact of exposing privacy that brought to them; they are now trying to balance between doing business and having ethics by providing users with a new tech option to avoid the threats. In conclusion, better business ethics can help form a better reputation of a company, therefore, it provides more opportunities to keep that company beneficial.

Works Cited

Krashinsky, Susan. “Facebook to Unveil Privacy Program in Effort to Reassure Users.” The Globe and Mail. The Globe and    Mail, Sept.-Oct. 2014. Web. 10 Sept.  2014. 

Chiu, Jeff. Facebook Privacy. Digital image. CTVNews. CTVNews, 11 Apr. 2014. Web. 10 Sept. 2014.