Ethics blog post

Do we have a moral obligation or duty to protect our privacy? Why or why not?

In the article, Allen said “People are giving away more and more personal data to intimates and strangers for a variety of self-interested, altruistic, or civic-minded reasons.” Nowadays, people want to say whatever they want to say on the social media networks. I agree with it, privacy is their right. There is no moral obligation or duty to protect our privacy; but when we are sharing the information which touches to other' privacy, we have an obligation to protect their privacy.

Is this obligation collective, individual, or both?

With the important information, all individuals have an obligation to protect such as account numbers, financial information. It is a collective obligation to protect individual privacy. Similar to the example that lawyers have an obligation to keep their clients’ information secret, that doctors have an obligation to keep their patients’ information; all companies are storing our information have an obligation to keep our privacy secure.