Please give feedback from the below discussion?

The stakeholders of apple are, the CEO of Apple company, the users of Apple cell phones, supporters, US citizens, and investors. CEOs have the most to lose, they spend a lot of time networking and building trusted relationships which can be jeopardized, their reputation will be affected possibly tarnished. This could have the potential of violating the privacy of all users if they were to establish a backdoor and it got into the wrong hands (Moser,n.d). The first Amendment would be violated by making Apple say or do something they do not want to; the FBI is being assertive by inquiring personal information influencing Apple to be backdoor to them. All Apple users could easily be at risk of invasion of privacy and leaving users to seek out other phone companies which would decline Apple sales and users. Apple users are not the only ones who would be affected, the US citizens will be affected as well for being in the crossfire for not trusting phone companies for invading their privacy. At any time, the FBI can ask Apple for information on their personnel and Apple is expected to deliver.

The decision to not have a backdoor for the FBI will most benefit the greatest number of stakeholders. Apple users will sign with other phone companies, for their security to protect their personal information. This will cause a decline in production and a significant decrease in users as well, so helping the FBI will be sacrificing the company just to unlock two phones. This data would have the potential of being compromised by creating a backdoor and setting a risky example in protecting user privacy and cyber security (Nicas, 2017).

The decision that utilitarian leads me to being a backdoor for the FBI, is that no one wants their privacy invaded with a strong possibility of being hacked by random cyberhackers. Utilitarian is the moral act that creates more happiness among others in the greater amount of people (Gilbert, 2016, Utilitarianism" para.2). The most people that will be satisfied in this decision would be the users, it's bad enough that they constantly get credit card scams, hackers hacking bank accounts and so much more, why not add one more invasion of our privacy to the list. I know that users wouldn't want a backdoor on their phones, nor hacked I know because I don't want the FBI having access to my phone. Our whole life is on our phones, from paperless bills to our family, our banking information, passcodes, pictures, videos, all our personal information we don't want exposed. The FBI needs to fine other alternative to prevent terrorists' attacks other than invading American privacy and violating the first Amendment. One may find that it's contradictory, although our safety is important, why is invading our privacy an option especially without the user permission.

Protecting rights and duties or fairness only leads back to utilitarianism; the outcome is the same. Protecting user rights and duties is only fair to user. If I knew that my privacy would be at risk with an Apple phone, I would seek service somewhere else. The justice approach would greatly be beneficial to the FBI, but I don't think it's worth invading users' privacy. The FBI has other means to target terrorism. I think having a backdoor on users' phone is a cheat card of solving an issue, the term is "work smarter not harder" and this is a prime example. Justice and fairness are going to always distribute benefits or burden to more than one party (Gilbert, 2016, "Fairness and justice" para 9).

References

Gilbert, Joseph. (2016). Ethics for Managers: Philosophical Foundation and Business Realities. Routledge.

CrashCourse. (2016, Nov 21). Utilitarianism: Crash Course Philosophy #36 [Video}. YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a739Vjqdsi

CrashCourse. (2016, Nov 21). Utilitarianism: Crash Course Philosophy #40 {Video}. YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOCTHVCKm90

Moser, Robert & McDonald, Patrick. (n.d.). The FBI & Apple: Security vs. Privacy. The University of Texas at Austin

Nicas, Jack & Benner, Katie. (2020). F.B.I Asks Apple to Help Unlock Two iPhone. New York Times Company