Legal, Ethical, And Moral Obligations In Social Media

Legal requirements and obligations

There are different legal obligations which are set to rescue the criminal under the particular governing principles. The costs are set for the legal requirements with helping individuals to handle the right doings and improve the wrong activites. The legal requirements are mainly to set the law of enforcement with charging people, when they tend to work against law. The ethical obligations do not have any legalised status where the obligation is based on human beings. The total combination is about ethical philosophy, decision ideologies that focus on making ethical decisions in corporate organisations. The moral obligations are mainly through determining the human rights and analysing how the people make friends, post pictures or send messages on messenger. The experts argue about the media which gives a sensitisation for the different crimes and its perpetuation. Certain Samaritan laws are set under the volunteer protection laws with ban on information and encouraging the communication or promotion with self-mutilation or eating disorders. There are posts to reveal the identity of issues when Facebook remove the comments (Goldsmith, 2015). The fundamental approach is to handle the expression where it does not have any legal duty but an ethical obligation for crime victim. There is no legal duty to report a crime but the social workers and the police officers in different states should be reported about the crime.

Facebook can be considered to be proactive that tends to abide by the code of conduct. There is a need to focus on:

1. Providing a higher security for protecting the users with handling the data at the time of using the website. Hence, for this, secured browsing is important. The encryption of messages and the posts are implemented mainly to prevent the other users to properly access till they have been given any permission. The elimination of spam or contacting people with any undesired data (Hing, 2015). Hence, the suggestions are important for changing the current passwords as well.
2. The Facebook must provide with the Statement of Rights and the Responsibilities which properly cover the service terms for the users of the websites. The updates are mainly to handle the changes of the policies and the guidelines. The violation of these rights could lead to the access or the part of Facebook account.
3. The policies of Facebook should be about advising the users about nudity, sexual content etc, which should be banned (Lee et al., 2017). With this, a proper help centre to handle the accounts when someone try to attempt to login from any unrecognized device or the web browser.

1. Professional Conduct

The focus is on correctional staff and administrators who are a major key to ensure about effective delivery of services. With this, the ACS code of ethics includes the professionalism and the grasp of field of operations in ethical manner. (Rice et al., 2017) This tends to put the stakeholders completely aware of the welfare of the standards of professional conduct. One needs to strive to resolve the ethical issues with direct communication among the parties that tend to seek for better consultation and stakeholders.

1. Knowledge

The information is set towards gathering knowledge with focus on ethics. The understanding is about ACS Code of Ethics to focus on certification and the license with professional organisation setup. The adherence is mainly attained when the party is private to its context and scope. Any lack of knowledge or misunderstanding should not be considered as a major defence for being charged for unethical conduct (Maskaly & Donner, 2015).

Facebook does not seem to have any Ethics Manager, but they should work on it, but they are only focusing on increasing the user count above 2 million. This dos not need any ethics involved for proper product planning at early stages even when they are undercutting to move fast ethic that spurred the company ascendance. The society need to focus on broadcasting the social issue like bullying, discrimination and violence which should not be able to be viewed by a single click (Murphy, 2016). A per the ethics committee, there is a need to bring a major attention to the upper management of Facebook with handling the prevention of suicides and murders which are viewed on the internet. According to the data policy of Facebook, we can access, preserve and then share the information depending upon the requests based on legal aspects. The search warrant, court orders are enough for the law to work on. Facebook has been ethically responsible to handle the victims of the crime and then prevent the normal people from the same. Due to the Cleveland murder, there has been additional “damage control” but till the user flags a video inappropriately, it is impossible to say how much long would it take to remove the view by the concerned authorities (NBC News, 2017).

1. There is a need to focus on the different use of hate speech. With this, the attacks are directed mainly to the individuals due to their race, ethnicity and the natural origin with sexual orientation. A proper monitoring could be practiced for eliminating the forms of the abusive communication (Neil & Moody, 2015). It is important to monitor the procedures where the individual tends to make use to remove profiles which are not genuine. This will help in managing the extensive instruction for the users to clearly handle the creation of page rather than a profile.
2. Facebook also removes any type of the abuse comments, when they detect it. There is a need to sanction against the individuals with the better law extent. The policy is generally set under the authentic identity which needs to be enforced for the user safety of Facebook. Here, the large amount of identity theft is present. Hence, the use of authentic identity could be helpful in completely eliminating the deceptive practices like cat fishing or the hacking accounts.

References

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Murphy, T. R. (2016). When Numbers Lie: the Under-reporting of Police Justifiable Homicides. Berkeley J. Crim. L., 21, 42.

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