 DSamuel O. Idowu () A chapter in Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility, 2015, pp 169-189 from Springer Abstract: Abstract The growing importance of social responsibility activities of businesses and their growing interaction with all stakeholders in society reveals that there is an enormous amount of data to handle. Data refers to unidentified stored facts by an entity which in simple terms means information [1]. Information is basically the new piece of facts which have the potential of adding value to the business and therefore data protection is an important issue in the information age that we operate in. The protection of data is the implementation of administrative, technical, or physical measures to guard against unauthorized access to data . Many companies today gather and store data for marketing and other purposes [2]. They collect as much information as possible about their customers in the name of targeting products more effectively in order to increase their revenue. Information transparency and information protection are two requirements that are desirable in the attempt to ensure that society operate sustainably and in a socially responsible manner. Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Business Ethic; Distributive Justice; Quality Function Deployment; International Labour Organisation (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-319-10536-9_4 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10536-9_4 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance from Springer |
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