Chapter 8 Additional Ethics in Action web links

Consumers and Business Ethics

Ethics in Action 8.1 – Smartphone data tracking is more than creepy – here’s why you should be worried.
AdWeek – Google is Collecting Your Data – Even When your Phone Isn’t in Use.
https://www.adweek.com/digital/google-is-collecting-your-data-even-when-your-phone-isnt-in-use/

The Guardian – ‘Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you’.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy

Forbes – ‘What’s Up With Big Data Ethics?’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/oreillymedia/2014/03/28/whats-up-with-big-data-ethics/#42332da23591

The Guardian – ‘How Europe’s ‘breakthrough’ privacy law takes on Facebook and Google’.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/19/gdpr-facebook-google-amazon-data-privacy-regulation

Ethics in Action 8.2 – Targeting the poor with microfinance: Hype or hope for poverty reduction?
Graamen Bank’s website.
http://www.grameen-bank.net/

The Guardian article on ‘Info Ladies’ in Bangladesh.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/jul/30/bangladesh-bikes-skype-info-ladies

World Economic Forum – ‘The 34-billion-dollar question: Is microfinance the answer the poverty?’.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/the-34-billion-dollar-question-is-microfinance-the-answer-to-poverty

Bloomberg – ‘Cambodia has a big problem with small loans’.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-01/microfinance-runs-amok-in-cambodia-where-everybody-has-a-loan

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