CS 1064 VT Ethical Dilemma in Photo Availability Essay

Scenario A – Photo Availability:  You recently attended a music festival and had a fantastic time. When you get home, you find that the festival organizers have uploaded some photos to a social media site, and some of them include you. Unfortunately, in one unflattering photo you seem to be inebriated.  You’re concerned that other employees of your company, including your boss, may see this photo. You contact the festival organizers, but they feel that they are not responsible for taking down the photo. You then contact the site to have the photo taken down. Should the festival organizers have taken down the photo? What should the site do?

your job is to consider the ethical issue involved in the scenario, taking into account multiple stakeholders. Then take a position and defend it.

Essay Content and Format

Write a short essay that:

summarizes the situation

takes a clear stance

includes a coherent argument supporting your stance

explicitly references a relevant ethical theory or guideline (see below), and

is written with understandable spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Your overall essay should be between 500 and 750 words. Conciseness is important in communicating with colleagues. 

Your essay should be structured as following:

The header of your essay should include a title, your name, and that you are responding to Scenario A 

Summarize the dilemma established by the scenario.

Summarize the ethical theory or guideline that you are referencing.

Discuss how you apply the theory or guideline to the scenario, take a clear position, and justify that position.

After the essay, provide a list of one or more references you used to develop your essay. The list should include at least one reference to the ethical theory or guideline you used.