Question

Select a legal consideration for public relations. Find a recent event involving this legal consideration. How was it handled? What do you think needed to be considered? Post in 175 words.

Answer 1

Legal consideration of public relation is invasion privacy.  
A recent event on invasion privacy is the incident of Brightest flashlight. The Brightest flashlight incident happened in the year 2013. The brightest flashlight software was downloaded more than 50 million times that breached the privacy of customers by revealing their current location.
The FTC organization took severe action against the makers of the Flashlight app as the company started revealing the location information of the PR clients through the software. FTC organization took action against the owner of the app Gold Shores Technology requesting them not to disclose the personal information of the user publicly. The company was legally ordered to improve its notification standard by providing users the authority to hide their location information and privacy information.
Legal actions can be considered in this case properly to ensure the ethical standard of privacy. Section 15B of the Privacy Act(1974) could be imposed against the organization for not keeping any privacy option initially for the customers. It was unethical to reveal consumer's location information without his consent that violates the legal obligations of the right to privacy. Thus,