Introduction
Web 2.0 refers to a variety of websites and applications that allow people to create, share, collaborate and communicate. Web 2.0 unlike from other types of websites as it does not require any web design or publishing skills to participate, making it easy for people to create and publish or communicate their work to the world. The nature of this technology makes it easy and popular way to communicate information to a much wider audience. There are number of different types of web 2.0 applications including wikis, blogs, social networking, folksonomies, podcasting & content hosting service, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr (Thomson, 2008). However, despite it greater advantageous to our world today, there are some threats involved on the other hand. In this essay, I will discuss some number of privacy and ethical issues associated with the use of this type of technologies. As well some threats such technologies pose for small Pacific Island communities. Lastly, I will discuss the reasons why a privacy bill should or should not be adopted in the Pacific.

Ethical and privacy issues related with the use of web 2.0 technologies?

Copyright is one of a major issue related with the use of web 2.0 technologies. This ethical issue is referring to copy of others information illegally, by means without the permission of the copyright holder. Using of web 2.0 technologies like Facebook, you tube and other applications nowadays are rapidly growth all over the world. So, this great revolution supports us in every aspects of life. For example, businesses use it to enhance business activities such as advertisement of their products and other related activities. In somehow, these great opportunities of communication and exchange misuse by some other business to make copyright like copying other business product features including brand and qualities and use it on their product without the consent of the owner. Further example, in terms of making money and attract more customer, some people went to very alike business and make pictures of their customer, product and other features. Then, use those pictures to post on their business Facebook page or you tube without the consent of the owner or when user using of computer software to download movies, books and music without the approval of the owner. Therefore, these visual works, audio visual works, written works and dramatic works is not only customize to these examples explain above, but there a lot of act with subject to copyright are very simple and easy for people or any user to make.

Further on this ethical issue, other major issue associated with the use of web 2.0 technologies is data and information security. Information security related to organisation or business is very vital for the life of business continuity. It is refers to the reliability on the flow of information by ensuring the confidence in the integrity and accuracy of the information. Thus, the great revolution of web 2.0 technologies impacts the reliability of information in the context of unauthorised access and uninterrupted access to data. Currently, many data and information security breaches and losses are deriving from internal employees, industrial espionage by competitors, organized crime and hackers (Corporation, 2008). For example, in the case of Apple Incorporation, Apple workers were attacked by unknown hackers when they visited a website for software developers that has infected with malicious software. The same software infected Macs by exploiting a flaw in a version of Oracle Corp’s Java software used as a plug-in on Web browsers, was used to launch attacks against Facebook. Also, Twitter disclosed that hackers accessed to some information on about 250,000 users (Menn, 2013). This above explanation implies that data and information security is very important for the life of business.

With regards, to ethical issue associated with using of web 2.0 technologies there are also some privacy issue is involved. The primary privacy issues are linked by using these web technologies is individual privacy. Individual privacy refers to the duty to maintaining confidence and respect privacy or it relates to personal information that a person would not wish other to know without prior authorization. With respect to these web applications, it aids people to communicate, collaborate sharing and exchange information in an efficient way by using Facebook, Blogs, Twitter, You tube and so on. But despite its benefits, some people offence, abuse and insult some other people privacy through in these web applications. For example, using of You-tube where users are able to upload their own video and these uploads can be downloadable for all other users.

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