Ethical and legal principles of professional activity of a private detective on the internet

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of such phenomenon as information ethics of a private detective on the Internet. Problems encountered in violation of professional ethics by a private detective in the Internet field have been identified. The article emphasizes that information ethics of a private detective on the Internet is one of the least elaborated issues, and even in the
drafts of the special law of Ukraine no article covers the issues of the ethics of a private detective or would be of a different nature to another legal document, that would define the ethical standards of private detective activity. Identified issues related to the issue of morality in the work of a private detective on the Internet and analyzed foreign documents whose provisions relate to morality on the Internet. The article analyzes the two categories as “personal morality” and “professional morality” of a private detective in the Internet field of communication, which makes it possible to argue that the professional morality of a private detective is a combination of personal and public morality, which allows reaching a certain level of (moral) professionalism. The article focuses on fundamentally important ways of solving this problem by not only proclaiming, but
also laying down the principles of the moral principles about the work of a private investigator on the Internet and the mandatory control over their observance. It is stated that the basis of these moral prescriptions should be the Moral Code of the private detective, which must necessarily be fully consistent with the existing international principles of detective activity. In the process of investigating this problem, it was concluded that the need for the development of moral postulates and the introduction of moral prescriptions in the work of a private detective on the Internet. Also, the article offers a list of requirements for moral (ethical) behavior towards a private detective on the Internet.