Ethics On The Cloud

Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Abdul Salam.

Ethics and morality have always been dictated by culture and the times. It takes on different forms and their forms from different places and time periods often contradict each other, and what is considered ethical or moral in one era may not be in another. The World Wide Web, and now more recently the move to Cloud Computing and the social revolution is changing the norms of our world’s cultures and ethics and morality along with it.

Just a decade ago it was very unethical to read someone else’s letter, it still is, but the medium of transportation and consumption has changed so much that it has become a little hard to define. Before, it was only between you and the mailman, and he was bound by law to never touch the contents of what he delivers. But in today’s Cloud environments there are no such laws and standards so companies are free to make their own…


And as it stands what they write in the agreement which the user consequently agrees to because they can’t avail of the service otherwise, becomes bounded by law. This has a very big potential to become fraud which in this case is actually legal because of the agreement and in my opinion is very unethical…

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