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Identify a recent (within the last six (6) months) ethical dilemma or ethically questionable situation relating to ICT that you are familiar with. This situation can be either in the media (for example one you have sourced from a newspaper, or online through social media) or through your workplace.

a. If using a workplace example, to maintain confidentiality, do not use real names.

b. If you use a media article you must include the link to the media article in the references list of your assignment.

Identify the key ethical issues contained in your chosen case and use the three distinct perspectives of applied ethics including professional, philosophical, sociological/descriptive ethics to analyse the ethical issues involved in the case.

The word limit should be between 1400-1500 words.

Note: Headings, citations, references and any appendices do not count towards your word limit, but quotations do.

At the start of the assignment indicates in brackets the word count of your assignment excluding those items mentioned above.

Include a Reference list at the end of your work, in the correct APA referencing style, corresponding to in-text citations.

You must include at least THREE (3) quality academic references (one for each ethical perspective) from different sources.

Please note that these references are in addition to those provided to you through this subject (for example, you still must reference, Tavani textbook, the Interact subject lecture notes etc BUT these references cannot be used as one of your three quality academic references from different sources).

Only include references that have been cited in the body of your assignment and ones that support what you have presented in your assignment.