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Do Cloud Ethics Exist

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Do Cloud Ethics Exist?

 

Emma Kantrowitz

February 19, 2013

https://www.digitalethics.org/essays/do-cloud-ethics-exist

 

"Rules Up in the Clouds "

First Impression:

I think cloud ethics haven't existed yet, due to the fact of people using it carelessly in any manner, storing multiple files of who knows what or using services in ways one couldn't possibly imagine; in my opinion, they could be "in progress" or something.

 

Quote: 

" If a change is made to an article that originally appears online and did not come from the print edition, if that change is not called out prominently then the reader assumes the mistake or error never occurred in the first place."

 

Reflection Proper:

The invention of cloud computing, I admit, from daily experience, has changed our lives in many ways so much that it has become an essential part in our day-to-day livelihoods. Its services allows many people, especially companies, to do such things like accessing a remote server's software and information in order to save the expense of installing those stuff into every employee's computer. It may have revolutionized our world, especially in the way industries operate, but it has its unfortunate side-effects, i.e. for one, it involves digital privacy. In the case of the cloud, if one uses cloud services, information is being stored into the cloud thanks to the service being used, and then eventually housed into a remote server in an off-site location where users are able to access it via any device connected to the Net; therefore, the information one stores into the cloud can be highly accessed by others like the same way one can access the information he or she had stored via any device other than his or her computer. Because of that, the problem of not knowing who could be accessing such information and what use can he or she can do with it has begun an initiative of sorts involving privacy protection and security, or rather make companies who use cloud computing obey state and federal consumer protection laws, as well as focusing on geo-location tracking and cyberbullying as well. But even though some initiative like that has been created, there is a question being raised: how do one create the correct laws and implements in order to protect cloud computing? My answer to that: if you don't know about true "privacy" and correct use of the cloud, then such laws can't be created. I agree with the essay on what Paul Ohm, a senior policy advisor for the Federal Trade Commission said about privacy, for in order to really know true privacy, or embrace it rather, cloud-computing companies should uphold the responsibility of following common rules and regulations,  and in addition to that, I would say common sense and proper use of cloud computing should be taught to everyone in order to create such cloud ethics and rules. Based on the essay though, clouds ethics such as ones involving consumer privacy and protection laws haven't been fully implemented yet, but it's only a matter of time: after all the world is changing, and cloud computing is on the rise. I personally promote cloud ethics and laws being implemented fully in the future, for I am a user of such services myself, and I agree that everyone should learn proper rules and regulations in using cloud-computing correctly in order to avoid creating such major catastrophes that can ruin our lives or worse.

 

5 Things Learned From Article: 

 

  1. I learned that cloud-computing jeopardizes consumer's online privacy even though it has changed the way in how industries operate

  2. I learned about the problems that goes with using cloud services.

  3. I learned about the  digital privacy initiative of Douglas Gansler, Attorney General at Maryland.

  4. I learned that people, mostly researchers, don't know enough about the cloud and privacy, and thus it's impossible to draft the correct laws and implements involving security of cloud computing.

  5. I learned that cloud ethics are in the works and it's only a matter of time until they are fully implemented.

 

5 Integrative Questions:

 

  1. How do you use cloud-computing?

  2. What's your take on the issue of digital privacy in relation to cloud computing?

  3. Which do you think is more preferable: doing work with or without the cloud, and why?

  4. What suggestions can you give to the people creating cloud ethics?

  5. How do you convince people using cloud services to use them correctly and not in a criminal manner?

 

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