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….
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…
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…
Hello, and welcome to the Technology and Ethics class. I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, teaching both in the software engineering and information technology fields. During my career, I’ve worked with new and emerging technologies regularly, including search, virtual reality, privacy, and now artificial technology. I’ve even worked with new technologies, which have…
There are several approaches to ethics that can help people be in a better position to make a sound ethical decision. Three common approaches to ethics include virtue ethics, consequentialist ethics, and deontological or duty-based ethics. We’re going to focus on Consequential ethics, i.e. is the end result good, and duty-based ethics, i.e. is this action right? Consequentialism Consequentialism…
The difference between ethical and legal is that legal concerns are based on formal, enforceable rules, while ethical concerns involve moral principles that may not have legal consequences3. Legal issues are those that are defined by law, while ethical issues are those that are based on personal values2. Something can be legal but not ethical5,…
