These days youll be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesnt have some sensitive data stored digitally including your employees. In fact, more than 80% of Americans own a smartphone and the average person uses roughly 25 applications every month. Thats a ton of opportunities for data to fall into the wrong hands! So what does that have to do with ethical problems in business? Well, the ethical issues have less to do with how your employees conduct themselves on company computers, smartphones, and tablets (although thats super important to address!). The ethics come into play when you decide how exactly to implement a cybersecurity plan for your business. What can your business do about data privacy? To avoid the reputational and financial damage of a data breach, youll want to develop a small business cybersecurity plan and put it into action as soon as possible. The ethical questions arise around the specific aspects that make up your cybersecurity plan. To be more precise, when does monitoring your employees behavior on company devices cross the line and become unethical? Unlike some other ethical problems in business, this one doesnt have legal restrictions. Businesses have the legal right to look into your browsing history and company email use, and they do! Check out this data from the American Management Association: 66% of businesses monitor Internet connections 45% track content, keystrokes, and time at keyboard 43% save and review files on your computer 10% monitor social media Ultimately, the way to avoid these ethical dilemmas in business is to openly communicate about them. Theres no sense in keeping your businesss monitoring a secret from employees. Quite the contrary if they know youre monitoring, theyll be less likely to do the things you have warned them about.

In less than 400 words, identify and apply all aspects of PAPA framework for ethical issues relating to the case above.