Ethics to me, in terms of Software Engineering, seems to have the similar concept of how ethics is applied to many other things in life. From my standpoint, ethics refers to morals and/or principles in relation to what a person is doing in a given situation. I’ve heard situations where people would ask others, “is this ethical?” or “in what way is this ethical?”. As mentioned, it does depend on the situation. In relation to Software Engineering, it isn’t any different. Ethics in Software Engineering, to me, specifies how we as Software Engineers use code to create products that consumers and utilize to benefit themselves or others; if we were to make this more ‘ethical’ we would have to consider the idea of how morals come into play when considering how our products affect consumers and anything similar to this situation. Basically, adhering and following
Based on the provided article regarding Facebook, it is unfortunate to hear that this happened as of last year but nonetheless it did happen; in this situation privacy became a large issue especially in regards to another country. In short, this shows how Facebook was ‘unethical’ in a sense considering it broke more than just a single Code of Ethics; this became some idea to debate about for a while now but more so now possibly due to the incident relating Facebook in this article. Privacy issues became a large concern, allowing consumers of this product to be worried about their accounts leaking information, worries of consumers going on to different websites with Facebook, somehow, keeping track of their histories and such; this list keeps going on and on.
People have debated on whether they should delete their Facebook accounts due to the rise in these issues; from my perspective it does seem that Facebook isn’t exactly in the greatest of spots out there in its field. Though giving someone a second chance would be ideal, doing that for this company with not only the issue listed in the article being known, but other problems as well when it involves a person’s privacy, this does seem somewhat difficult to work with. I do feel I would be on the side to agree to have my own Facebook account deleted due to trust issues with social medias like this that are out there possibly having similar issues or the possibility to have such issues in the near future.