Question

While walking through your office section, you are motioned over to a desk where two of your co-workers are laughing and pointing at a monitor screen. One of the co-workers whispers that he found a folder on the file server marked private with over 1,200 selfies belonging to the receptionist, many of them revealing. Your co-worker added his administrator credentials to the folder permissions to gain access. The second co-worker states he will make a copy of the folder and upload some of the more revealing pictures to the Internet. You are about to become complicit in the violation of the receptionist's privacy. What are your ethical concerns, and how will you proceed?

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words

Answer 1

Hi,

This kind of issues will arise in most of the companies and most of them are womens/girls.
Obviously this kind off issues need to be solved, when you are in that situations.

First it is an unlawful issue.If yes then find the persons involved in, including the receptionist.

Then find where the issue is originated, here on the "file server".So the issue need to be fixed on the server.
Don't let them(co-workers including the receptionist) know that you trying to solve this issue. Go to the file server real(who manages the servers) administrator, then explain the issue. Now ask the admin to remove access to that folder.

Finally go to the manager/CEO/Head clearly explain them what happened exactly. Then call your co-workers and ask them to remove the duplicated files and images on INTERNET. Give an strict warning to all the employees that no one should access others personal information.

Don't let your higher officials to take your name in this context. Just solve this type issues as an Intelligence officer(We know we are not , but we need to be careful).

One important thing is that no where we including the receptionist, so that we are our company name is not spoiled at the same time the victims won't try any kind suicide kind of thins.