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Wikileaks and Ethics of Whistle Blowing

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Backhaus, Patrick Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	1. Extended Abstract In a time in which the Internet pervades everyday life and information published is readable all over the world, it becomes very important to deal with ethical problems related to whistle blowing via the Internet. Although there are basic concepts like anonymity, privacy and freedom of speech, for every new kind of phenomenon we have to discuss its ethical aspects (Kizza, 2010)(Nadler and Schulman, 2006). A current example is the platform WikiLeaks which publishes a vast amount of secret documents. will apply the following ethical approaches: The Utilitarian Approach, focusing on the consequences that the publications of WikiLeaks have on the well-being of all parties that are affected directly or indirectly, so there are two sides to consider: • On the one hand, the uncovering of misconduct and the increased transparency of the government are of such importance that the publications benefit society as a whole. So it alleviates the opinion making and leads to a greater understanding of governmental work. • On the other hand the publications may threaten the national security and so harm society. They lead to a society with decreased integrity which may eventually result in less communication, more technical restrictions and so in less freedom. To achieve a balance between both sides a potential approach could be that WikiLeaks reduces their amount of published data and classify the data more in detail. Further they could contact the company or government concerned before the publication, so that this party itself could acknowledge the misconduct. The Virtue Ethics Approach, focusing on attitudes that develop our human potentials such as e.g. honesty, courage, faithfulness, trustworthiness and integrity. It is easy to see that WikiLeaks disregards these virtues in many different contexts. They are
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