Tag Archives: confidentiality

February 19, 2011

Unethically Leaked Unethical Manuscript Shows That Sarah Palin Is Unethical

The Anchorage Daily News has obtained a leaked (read: stolen) manuscript of an unpublished book detailing a close former aide to Sarah Palin’s discovery of the Republican star’s many character flaws. Surprised? Continue reading →

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Filed under Business & Commercial, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Leadership, Professions, Workplace

Tagged as "In Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of our Tumultuous Years", Alaska, betrayal, confidentiality, courage, election laws, First Amendment, Frank Bailey, information-laundering, journalism, journalistic ethics, leakers, leaks, loyalty, Sarah Palin, stolen manuscript, tell-all books, The Anchorage Daily News, theft, trust, whistleblowers

January 18, 2011

The Lost Flashdrive and Presumed Consent

The photo that the Arboretum posted to its Facebook page looks innocuous enough: two smiling young men sitting on a hillside. Still, it doesn’t take a lot of imagination, or the reading of many thrillers, to conceive scenarios in which the widespread distribution of the photograph causes problems for the people in it. Continue reading →

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Filed under Etiquette and manners, Law & Law Enforcement, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as confidentiality, empathy, ethics, fairness, good faith, kindness, photographs, presumed consent, privacy, recovering lost property, The Boyce Thompson Arboretum, use of private property

December 28, 2010

Observations on “The Psychic’s Code of Ethics”

I was surprised to find a long dissertation about ethics posted on a website for self-designated psychics. The post itself was also full of surprises. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Professions, Religion and Philosophy

Tagged as confidentiality, conflicts of interest, deception, ethics codes, fortune-telling, fraud, honesty, integrity, Psychic's Code of Ethics, psychics, supernatural, Tarot Certification Board of America’s Client Bill of Rights

December 22, 2010

Lindsay Lohan Has Privacy Rights Too

Lindsay Lohan cannot catch a break. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Popular Culture

Tagged as addiction, betrayal, Betty Ford Center, confidentiality, Dawn Holland, ethics, fairness, gossip, integrity, Lindsay Lohan, privacy, professionalism, TMZ, training

December 20, 2010

Ethics Fouls and Julian Assange’s Rape Case

I’m waiting to find out if Mr. Assange will send a letter of congratulations to the Guardian for embracing his values by releasing his police report. Continue reading →

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Filed under Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, The Internet, Unethical Websites, War and the Military

Tagged as "no means no", "sex by surprise", abuse of process, AOL News, bias, biased reporting, confidentiality, consensual sex, consent, Dana Kennedy, ethics, fairness, holding charges, irony, Jessica Valente, journalistic ethics, Julian Assange, justice, leaking, North Carolina, privacy, prosecutorial discretion, prosecutors, rape, rule of law, sham proscutions, State v. Way, Sweden, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Wedny Murphy, Wikileaks, withdrawn consent

December 17, 2010

Ten Useful Ethics Alarms

Here are ten basic ethics alarms; there are lots of other useful ones to have installed, but these will serve you well. Continue reading →

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Filed under Daily Life, Professions, U.S. Society

Tagged as competence, confidentiality, conflicts, consultation, courage, desperation, ethics, ethics alarms, impaired judgment, loyalty, non-ethical considerations, professionalism

December 13, 2010

Unethical Quote of the Day: The Associated Press

More confidential information laundering by our irresponsible press. Continue reading →

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Filed under Ethics Quotes, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Sports

Tagged as anonymous sources, Associated Press, confidentiality, ethics, fairness, information-laundering, journalistic ethics, medical records, privacy, the public's right to know, Urban Meyer

September 30, 2010

Thomas Boswell’s Outrageous Ethical Breach

If Tom Boswell knew that a steroid-user was going to be voted into the Hall under the false assumption that he was not a cheat, he was obligated to let the public, his colleagues who voted the honor, and Major League Baseball know about it too. Continue reading →

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Tagged as Barry Bonds, baseball, Cal Ripken, confidentiality, duty to warn, ethics, integrity, Jose Canseco, journalism, journalistic ethics, Ken Burns, Mark McGwire, performance-enhancing drugs, Ricky Henderson, Roger Clemens, Ryne Sandberg, Sammy Sosa, sportswriters, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Thomas Boswell, whistleblowers

September 28, 2010

Mayhill Fowler and The Ethics of Quitting

The internet creates unfortunate opportunities for the fired, rejected, under-appreciated and disgruntled to do all sorts of harm to their previous employers and themselves. Former Huffington Post blogger Mayhill Fowler has considerately given us an abject lesson in how not to leave a job, though at some personal sacrifice. Continue reading →

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Filed under Business & Commercial, Daily Life, Etiquette and manners, Journalism & Media, Professions, Romance and Relationships, The Internet, U.S. Society, Workplace

Tagged as Ariana Huffington, blogging, confidentiality, ethics, etiquette, fairness, graciousness, Huffington Post, jobs, Mayhill Fowler, negotiations, privacy, relationships, spite, tact, trust, vengeance

September 6, 2010

The Troubling Ethics of Human Psychological Experimentation

Call me an alarmist if you like, but this makes me worry about the reckless, harmful and even diabolical experiments being dreamed up by the next wave of aspiring authors and the psychological researchers who give them their best material. Continue reading →

Tag Archives: confidentiality

Unethically Leaked Unethical Manuscript Shows That Sarah Palin Is Unethical

Observations on “The Psychic’s Code of Ethics”

Lindsay Lohan Has Privacy Rights Too

Ten Useful Ethics Alarms

Unethical Quote of the Day: The Associated Press

Thomas Boswell’s Outrageous Ethical Breach

Mayhill Fowler and The Ethics of Quitting

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