Analyzing the Legal and Ethical Implications of Digital Technologies on Businesses in Cameroon as a Developing Country

The impact that modern digital technologies have brought to bear on human activity such as politics, education, the economy and businesses across the globe is so alarming. Top-notch and cutting-edge technologies such as robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, mobile phone technology, digital computers, camera surveillance, etc have had drastic changes on human culture, law, religion, work, etc, and have greatly upsated the normal order of things in the society. It seems evident that societies not using these technologies are no longer competitive and seem to be left behind. However, the use of these technologies in business enterprises has been met with certain legal and ethical repercussions. Some of these legal nightmares range from intellectual property rights protection queries and privacy challenges to regulatory and compliance challenges. Meanwhile, the ethical dilemma fluctuates between dignity, conscience, right and wrong, addictions, etc. To have a proper apercu of these challenging issues, the doctrinal/bench method has been employed in a bit to explore relevant literature and necessary documents in this area. Data collected from this method has been carefully analyzed using the SWOT technique of data analysis which led to striking conclusions and key findings pointing to the fact that though there are enormous benefits of employing modern technologies in business enterprises, there are also enormous legal and ethical challenges. This paper then recommends a legislative and techno-social response to quickly curb some of these challenges lurking around the use of modern digital technologies in business enterprises.