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  • Google and the ethical approaches

    The 2014 ruling of the European Court of Justice against Google means that Google has been given the ethical responsibility of making fair decisions about personal information on the Internet. In this section we will see how Google could use the different ethical perspectives (consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics) when trying to balance the individual’s right to privacy with the public’s right to information?

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