Legal and ethical issues & Social Problems

With the advantages of smartphone, there also exists some disadvantages including social problems and legal and ethical problems. According to the CBS News, last accessed on June 13, 2013, an article named Smartphone security: Law enforcement to issue call for help from tech companies shows us in the U.S., one-third of robberies involve the theft of a mobile device. According to Consumer Reports, "1.6 million Americans had their smartphones stolen last year. "Why do they not break into cars every night and steal radios out of them? Because the people who make cars and radios made it so when you rip radio out, it won't work again." (CBS News, 2013)" In additional to these unethical robberies, using smartphone often cause traffic crash. According to the report named No smartphone service? Fewer traffic crashes which was published on December 1st 2014 on the Washington Post, the author Ashley Halsey pointed that traffic accidents fell by 20 percent in Dubai and 40 percent nationwide. The chief of police and the head of the traffic division both linked the drop to the outage, which cost BlackBerry owners' access to email, text messages and internet functions. (Halsey, 2014) It means less use of smartphone, fewer traffic accidents happen. There are some other disadvantages of smartphone such as privacy issues and security issues. For example, when we shopping online, many unethical issues happen. Sometimes, seller use unethical methods to see the customers' password of credit card. Also, privacy problems are also tough to solve. Some illegal and unethical hackers invade our system to steal some important data or information. This is very annoying and victims always feel helpless.