Please respond to the following questions using a Word document attached as a response. Make sure that you have the question and its number at the beginning of each response. It’s OK to respond out of sequence, as long as I see the number and question at the beginning of each question…
My general policy is to have a final exam that is 20% of the final grade. Please recall my criteria are to observe that you identify any ethical issues, and respond citing any authorities (if possible), even if you disagree with them in your opinion (hopefully explaining using another authority). Demonstrating that you understand the ethical issues and authorities will make the grading difference between simply ‘your opinion’ and ‘a logical and authoritative argument’.
It’s OK to provide the responses earlier than the due date. I simply request that you respond to all the questions in the same attached document, and that I will only accept a single submission… so once you hit that enter key…!
- Is the definition of friendship changed with the popular usage of Social Network Systems and, if so, how?
- Why is the contention that virtual harm is not real harm fallacious?
- What are the possible ethical dilemmas and issues resulting from AI? (expanded response, you can have a bulleted list, with a brief explanation for each item)
- Is employee monitoring ethical?
- Expanded response: What obligation does the US have to ensure that all Americans have full and affordable access to the Internet? Does this extend to a global community and how?
- Describe four ways in which privacy threats in cybertechnology differ from those posed by earlier technologies.
- Why are some of the surveillance techniques used by the US on citizens considered controversial?
- Do you believe that some of the voluntary controls and self-regulation initiatives from industry and e-commerce will work? (why/why not)
- What are the characteristics of a cybercrime and how do we differentiate from cyber-related crimes?
- Can we ethically justify practices of Certified Ethical Hackers?
- Is it ever correct to counter-hack and, if so, under what circumstances?
- Why is the DCMA controversial?
- How is intellectual property different from tangible (real) property?
- Should software be patent protected?
- Cyborgs: Somewhat expanded response. (not just two or three paragraphs)
Paul Cougar Rambis is an Iraqi War veteran who lost a leg in combat. Before entering the military, he was a fairly accomplished golfer and had planned to turn professional after completing his tour of duty in the U.S. Army. Initially, his dreams seemed shattered when he was severely wounded by an explosive device he encountered while on a routine patrol. But, then, Cougar learned that a new kind of bionic leg had recently been developed and that he was at the top of the list to receive one of these remarkable limbs. When Cougar returned home (with his new leg in place), he resumed his golfing activities. But when he wished to declare himself a professional golfer, Cougar was informed that he would be unable to participate in professional golf competitions because of his artificial leg. However, Cougar responded that his new leg, though artificial, was a natural replacement for his original (biological or natural) leg and that, as such, it did not enhance his ability to swing a golf club or to endure the rigors associated with walking through the typical 18-hole golf course. The professional golf association responded that their policy is (and always has been) that no one with an artificial limb (or prosthetic device of any kind) is eligible to compete professionally under their rules. Does this policy still seem appropriate, in light of contemporary technology-based remedies available for people like Cougar? Recall the distinction we drew (in Section 11.3.3) between therapeutic and enhancement implants. If Cougars artificial leg qualifies as a therapeutic device, that is, by simply restoring his body functions to normal, should Cougar be allowed to compete as a professional golfer? On the other hand, if that leg does not injure as easily, and does not age in the way that natural legs do, is Cougars new leg merely a therapeutic replacement? In other words, does it enhance his ability to compete, even if only minimally? What would you decide in this case if you were a member of the governing board of the Professional Golfers Association?
- Open ended question:
Discuss the possibilities of developers incorporating a bias (racial, ethnic, age, sex, or other ) into a software system. How can this be avoided (or not?). I would advise to first identify systems containing such biases or opportunities for biases, determine how they came about, and then see if there are any ethical issues and ways to mitigate or resolve these issues.
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