Swing Thru the Ball
What should you do? Do you stop things? Start things? Answer: yes, to both. Of course you should rethink and reevaluate but if you do that for long you put at risk the current business or effort simply because you didn’t execute what you could have done.
Online Communities and Their Impact on Business: Ignore at Your Peril (Introduction)
In our strategy work with tech companies, we’re frequently asked about web communities — how they operate, what they can and can’t do, and how a company should look to work with them. The companies we deal with generally fall…
Wall Street Journal: When Does Technology Cross Ethics?
Can the use of new technology be unethical? Or does such use never cross the ‘bright line’ of ethics?
A piece in the Wall Street Journal raises those questions:
“Police in Washington D.C. arrested a man they believe is responsible for a string of assaults, the Washington Post reported this week. The breakthrough in the case came when investigators placed a tracking device on the car of a convicted rapist. There wasn’t much evidence linking the man to the assaults beyond his past and the fact that he lived in the area. But thanks to the GPS device, the police caught the man committing an assault.
Here’s the catch: The police didn’t have court approval to place the device. And, according to the Post, this is an increasingly common tactic.”
Read the entire story here.
Categories: Values and All things Good
Tags: ethics , GPS , new technology , values , Wall Street Journal , Washington Post
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