The future of an ethics-skirting basketball program is in the spotlight, and so are the teaching practices that led massive numbers of students to cheat in a course many originally took because it had a reputation for being easy.

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By Marc Goodman, Chair for Policy, Law and Ethics at Singularity University and Founder of the Future Crimes Institute.

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Mr Mandelson said the concessions would ensure that all police officers - current as well as future recruits - signed up to a new code of ethics.

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This puts millions of user accounts and their personal information at the mercy not just of Facebook, but of the ethics of every company that becomes an instant personalization partner in the future.

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As Enron changed the world of auditing and corporate ethics, it seems Facebook will have a similar impact in the way investors view future IPOs.

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At a bare minimum, though, if all teams, coaches, and players were held to a universal standard of ethics and transparency scandals like this would be much less likely to occur in the future, and scandals that did occur would be much less likely to go unreported for so long.

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Together, we can eradicate the roots of bitter maladies and afflictions, and instead, through the promotion of universal and lasting values such as ethics, spirituality and justice, allow our nations to taste the sweetness of a better future.

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