We’ve previously looked at what is electronic voting. Then we looked at the ethics of allowing voting using an electronic method. Now we’ll discuss the ethics of preventing the use of electronic voting. Most, as we will see, are because of the chance of tampering. They showed this in the clever Sci-Fi TV show Eureka…
We’ve previously looked at what is electronic voting. Now we want to look at the ethics of allowing voting using an electronic method. We’ll discuss the ethics of preventing it’s use in another article. There are several reasons to allow, or move to, various forms of electronic voting, including fully digital voting over the Internet….
Background Voting Information For some quick perspective, we’re going to be talking about voting in the United States. This process may vary from country to country in both when and how voting is done, as well as if it is compulsory or optional. In the United States, each state has it’s own separate laws, which…
We talked about some of the advantages of cryptocurrency previously. However, every technology which has advantages will also have disadvantages, and a risk of it being unethical in its raw form. We now want to look at some of the challenges to crypto and if there are ways to work around it. While we’ll talk…
We’ve already talked about who owns your data, and data privacy. That dealt a lot with the data that you allow to be collected, even if it’s in a forced format since you have to have a cell phone for work/school. Now we want to look at the amount of data that is collected while…
We mentioned earlier how much data is worth now-a-days. And anything with value, will attempt to be stolen. There seems to be a never ending series of stories in the news about data breaches occurring at all different types of organizations. If you do a search for Data Breaches in 2023, Google will return 366,000,000…
Data protection regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), all presume that the individual “owns” her or his individual personally identifiable information (PII). However, the law of data ownership is far from settled. — https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3987369 Data has been called the “new oil” by some people. Something of…
Cryptocurrency is often touted as having several advantages over traditional currency. These include: But first, you have to look at are all of these even true. (Remember, some people believe that the ends justify the means, and if there is an advantage overall, they may exaggerate it to get you to convert.) Converting Bitcoin into…
