Question 1: What are some definitions of privacy? Is privacy a right unto itself

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Question 1: What are some definitions of privacy? Is privacy a right unto itself, or is it a special case of a more general kind of right? Question 2: Why is it ethically objectionable for companies to share employee information? Question 3: As a part of its new recruitment strategy, XYZ Corporation's human resource department has decided to review social media posts of prospective employees to determine if the applicants are very religious. The company has encountered scheduling difficulties during the holidays and wishes to screen for applicants who would not object to working during the holidays. Evaluate the company's new recruitment strategy involving social media and make your best argument against this particular approach.

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Q1) Privacy is considered as the state of being free from public attention and is a freedom from intrusion or interference from others. It is a state where certain facts are not known to others.

Privacy can be ensured by allowing the individual to make a call when, where, to whom and what kind of information they want to shared or hidden.

Q2) Privacy though from a general understanding perspective, is considered as the level of data or information the individuals are not willing to share, not always everything is defined and concrete. It also depends on the specific cases where one kind of information is considered private and the same kind in another scenario is not. Hence privacy is a special case of a more general kind of right.

Q3) Considering that an individual shares his/her information in social media and sets the particular privacy level whether it can be visible to everyone or to friends or to none, the privacy part is already taken care of. Now, employee reviewing social media posts of employees to understand the nature of their beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors through the access to information which is available can be considered fine from a privacy perspective, it is not correct from an ethical standpoint as an employee needs to be evaluated based on his personality, attitude, skillset, knowledge, experience etc. after multiple rounds of recruitment process against various metrics rather than doing prescriptive analytics just by the means of random social media posts. These cannot be considered as a yardstick of measure for the beliefs and attitudes.

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