The following news item showed up on the privacy news blog pogowasright.org, and

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The following news item showed up on the privacy news blog pogowasright.org, and quotes a press release by the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

“Power Ventures makes a web-based tool that users can set up to log into their multiple social networking accounts and aggregate messages, friend lists, and other data so they can see all the information in one place. In a lawsuit against Power Ventures, Facebook claims that Power’s tool violates criminal law because Facebook’s terms of service ban users from accessing their information through “automatic means.” By using Power’s tool, Facebook argues that its users are accessing Facebook “without permission…” EFF argues in an amicus brief filed Monday that users have the right to choose how they access their data, and turning any violation of terms of use into a criminal law violation would leave millions of Facebook users unwittingly vulnerable to prosecution.”

Based on this scenario, match the ethical theory that would make each of these statements viable. (I’m not saying these are good arguments – just that they’re representative of what a given theory might say). Look for concepts and words important to the theories.

Your added statement is: "The aggregators are bad because aggregators encourage users to have more online friends then they can manage – so they get in the habit of forming shallow friendships, rather than real ones."

Your ethical options are:

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Correct Answer - Virtue

The virtue theory emphasizes the virtues of mind and character. It is to live life in a moral way by practicing honesty, bravery, generosity, justice etc.

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