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UNIT 2
APPLICATION AND ETHICS
THE BIGGEST DATA BREACH OF ALL TIME
ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS
AT THE END OF THE FEATURE
ETHICS QUESTION
What is the extent of a business’s ethical obligation to protect the personal information
of its customers and employees? Discuss. There are many possible answers to this
question. Generally, these depend on a perception of the extent of the threat to the information
that individuals entrust to the business.
For example, if the risk of a data breach is seen as ongoing and likely, the legal and
CRITICAL THINKING
Most likely, hackers will always exist, attempting to breach computer systems using the
most up-to–date technology. What can businesses do to prevent breaches to their
systems? The feature discusses a variety of steps that a business might take to safeguard its
intellectual property, including its trade secrets, and the personal information of its customers
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