Question

Reflect on events having occurred during the last 12–18 months and provide some examples of corporate breakdowns or instances of breaches of ethics and social responsibility.

Explain the examples and describe what you assess as the root cause(s).

What would you recommend to prevent similar instances of breach from happening in the future?

Answer 1

The most recent corporate breakout was the Facebook data leak scandal that happened in year following 2010, when Facebook had opened a platform called open graph. The consumer data from the platform was used by another analytical firm, Cambridge Analytica. The data was used for conducting predictive analysis for Donald Trump’s presidential election voting.

The root cause of this incident was the carelessness of Facebook to allow any firm registered over its network, to access consumer data. Facebook used the consumer’s data without taking prior permission from the consumers. This was morally and socially unethical. This privacy crisis needs to be dealt with efficiently or else the whole platform of Big Data will come under trouble.

Companies handling such big servers of data must have strict firewalls and definite layers of data protection. Also, any kind of app must ask for any essential data from the customer. The customer must also be socially responsive of the data that he is sharing on apps and he must dig deep to understand the objective of apps behind the collection of data. Consumer must share his crucial information only on validated apps. These are some of the ways through which this data breach can be tackled.