Ethical issues about privacy
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- What do you mean? Are you saying that you cannot determine if tracking my phone is right or wrong?
- Not really, Enriquez J. (2019) explained further that Technology sometimes drive different ethical mores . This mean that it is the technology that is in place at certain times that would determine what is ethical.
- So, how does this technology of phone tracking determine that it is right for you to track your children's phone?
- For example, many families are so grateful that there is such technology at this time that gives them peace of mind and an assurance that their family is safe even when they are far away from them
- Luckerson V.(2012) stated “Some 20 million people have already downloaded Life360, a location app that allows family members to alert one another when they’ve arrived at various spots and to follow one another’s movements with by-the-minute updates”. Can't you see that this is a relief to parents and a help to our duties to protect our children?
- Why do you have to track my phone? Don't you think it's unethical?You are infringing on my privacy
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- What do you know about ethics? Do you even know what is ethical or what is not?
- Well,According to Velasquez M. et al (2020), Ethics is based on well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights,obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues.
- Enriquez J. (2019) explained in his TedX Talk that it is hard to know what is ethical or what is not because of technology . That what is ethical now might not be ethical in years to come. He said How do we establish ethics for the next generation as technology changes what you can do? So, we actually cannot tell what is right or wrong because technology keeps determining that.
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- Luckerson quoted Life360 CEO Chris Hulls stating “ that parents’ demanding to know their children’s whereabouts is not a new development; teenagers have been rolling their eyes at this violation of their civil liberties for generations. And he tries to portray Life360 less as a surveillance device than as a tool for familial communication. “We don’t really see ourselves as a tracker,” he says. “It really is much more [centered] around family awareness. [The Life360 app]is just an easier and more efficient way of doing it.”
- So how do you determine whether the privacy of the family member is being infringed on or that it is just about family communication and peace of mind?
- I know that I am not the only one concern about my privacy, The Office of the privacy commissioner of Canada (2019) published the 2018 -2019survey of Canadians on privacy. They stated that “The vast majority (92%) of Canadians expressed some level of concern about the protection of their privacy”This data below showed their survey result. (see data in the next cell)
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- So, my question is how do we draw the boundaries to determine when and whether something is ethical?
- Just like Enriquez J. (2019) said in his TEDx talk video that “Technology changes the boundaries of what is allowable. There is still more to come He said “there is a whole series of other examples of things we might be doing today that technology is going to displace the ethics and move the ethical goal post” We don't determine what is ethical anymore, technology does.
- But then, we still have our privacy to protect!
- Just like Sprenger P.(1999) quoted the CEO of Sun Microsystem, Scott McNealy as saying that “consumer privacy issues are a ‘red herring’ . In Scott's words You have zero privacy anyway.
- Sadly, that appears to be true.This issue of privacy and its ethics is really a big global issue and it is really giving me concerns.
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- Just imagine Nick Hopkins (2023) recounted how the Guardian defied the intelligence agencies to publish revelations of mass state surveillance. He stated that “Snowden had provided us with important clues: the names of secret NSA and GCHQ programmes that harvested massive amounts of personal data”.
- All in the name of trying to protect the earth
- Are you serious? Tell me more.
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- Goodman A.(2020) in YouTube video reported how Facebook, and Big Data(Cambridge analytical)used people’s data without their knowledge and consent .She reported that “Cambridge analytical harvested some 87,000,000 Facebook profiles without the users’ knowledge and consent
- Tell me, this is not true!
- Mum, this is more serious than you think! Goodman A. (2020) reported how credit card swipes, web searches, locations, likes were all collected in real time to a trillion-dollar data industry (Cambridge analytical)
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- Data never sleeps (10.0) shared an infographic of the data being created each minute on the internet. While this is amazing,to know, it is disturbing to know that there is access to my data without my knowledge and consent. I don’t even know how much information they know about me. What if the information they have about me is used against me? Look at the data. (see data in the next cell)
- Now, you are scaring me!
- Mum,I don't mean to scare you. I am just making you aware of the reality that we are faced with in this age of fast paced technology.
- Now I see why she was mad at me for tracking her phone
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- In the video Goodman A. (2020), Brittany Keiser was interviewed, she explained that the amount of data that is collected about you on Facebook and on any of your devices is much more than you are really made aware of.
- She said “ you probably haven’t read the terms and conditions in your phone. But,if you actually took time to do so, you couldn’t understand it because most of them are written for you not to understand….. you’d realize that you are given away a lot more than you will ever agree to if there was transparency.
- What would we do now to avoid this encroachment on our privacy? Technology has become a part of me that I cannot do without it.
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- She talked about how your behavior and personality could be predicted accurately just by using your data.
- How is this ethical? How do we live with this non consent interference with our lives?
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- Now,I feel very uncomfortable about how big data can harvest every of my data via virtually all I do with technology; emails, bank transactions, map locations,social media, phone calls, and even from the gadgets I use.
- I know that I am guilty of the fact that I don’t read terms and conditions before clicking the accept button. Even if I read the conditions, would I understand them? Just like Brittany Kaiser said in the interview with Amy Goodman.
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- All we can do is to minimize the information we put out there, to make sure that we have a strong password in all sign ups and not only that, to have different password for each sign up we we make. Just like the infographic keys “Does your password suck?” that was shared in the course material suggested (see photo in the next cell).
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- ReferencesData nevers leeps (10,0). Infographichttps://cdn.prod.website-files.com/679b91372d2e093f2a4287aa/67ceca8f15016e4114144d05_product-feature-22-data-never-sleeps-10.avif Enriquez J. (2019). Ethics in the age of technology (TEDx talk, Berlin). YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiAirfn-lBIt=147sGoodman A.(2020). Democracy Now: The weaponization of data: Cambridge analytical,information warfare the 2016 election of Trump. YouTube video .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ6I6uYIePoLuckersonV. (2012) Should you use smart phone to track your kids. Timeshttps://business.time.com/2012/09/14/should-you-use-your-smartphone-to-track-your-kids/Nick Hopkins (2023). Edward Snowden: Snowden, MI5 and me:how the leak of the century came to be published. The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/edward-snowden-mi5-nsa-prism-ghcq
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- Sprenger P.(1999). Sun on privacy: get over it. Wiredhttps://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/The Officeof the privacy commissioner of Canada (2019). 2018 – 2019 Survey of Canadianson privacy.https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/research/explore-privacy-research/2019/por_2019_ca/Velasquez M. et al (2020). What is Ethics? Markkula center for Applied Ethics. Sant Clara University.https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/what-is-ethics/
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