Information Technology Ethics Issues Article Summary Isaac Williams BIS/221 December 15, 2014 Mary Robbins University of Phoenix BIS/221 To: Mary Robbins From: [Your Name] cc: Learning Team B Date: Re: Wearables with augmented reality are mind-blowing -- and an ethical nightmare. Ethical risks posed by wearable technology, utilizing “AR” software. Companies like Google are straying away from the once popular Virtual Reality, in favor of what they are calling “Augmented Reality”, or AR. According to Merriam-Webster, AR is “an enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device (as a smartphone camera); also: the technology used to …show more content…
(Duggan & Smith, 2013) Cross-network and cross-device connectivity and sharing is where the real ethical dilemmas begin to surface. Devices today cannot stand alone, in a world focused so much on connectivity. But, when does that connectivity go too far? When do companies focus so much on connectivity and sharing that they all but ignore personal privacy? How much information should a device be able to share? How far should a social media network be able to penetrate into its users’ personal information before it becomes unethical? Privacy risks and security concerns are only amplified with the addition of these wearable technologies. Devices used to monitor heart rates, stress levels, voice recognition, geolocations, and activity patterns are storing, and possibly sharing, real-time biological and geographical information. With head-mounted devices like Google Glass, that information extends to even seeing what a user is seeing at that moment, and according to Nick Statt, the concerns only get scarier when these new technologies begin employing facial recognition software and its applications. References Duggan, M., & Smith, A. (2013, December 30). Social media matrix. Retrieved from Pew Research Center: http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/12/30/social-media-matrix/ Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Dictionary: augmented reality. Retrieved from Merriam-Webster: an Encyclopedia Britannica Company:
As times change and humans progress ahead with new innovative ideas to enrich the quality of human life, often the main essentials to basic human life are forgotten. The introduction of smartphones leads to a crisp experience for the user to have an on-the-go computer. Social networks like Twitter and Facebook, and short and simple games, now replace those once bored moments. Consumers are more focused towards the extra luxurious qualities than the sole purpose of connecting those of longer distances. The main selling points for these products no longer include safety, emergency use, and security, but instead how one will be more connected to the outside world. With these new creations of technology, the concept of what technology may do wrong to society gets overlooked (Johnson.)
Inside the topic of health care system ethic is implicit the pregnancy dilemma. This wide topic can include hundreds of pages; herein we are going to cover principal’s data of this essential topic in today’s lives.
As technology is advancing in this digital age so is the need to protected people’s privacy and to keep their personal information confidential. As Michael McFarland, of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics noted “Reverence for the human person as an end in itself and as an autonomous being requires respect for personal privacy. To lose control of one 's personal information is in some measure to lose control of one 's life and one 's dignity. Therefore, even if privacy is not in itself a fundamental right, it is necessary to protect other fundamental rights” (Michael McFarland, 2012). It is in the light of this that the ethical dilemma of whether smartphone manufacturer has the right to track their customer location is the focus of this paper. People’s personal and sensitive information such as medical records, court records, financial records and geolocation information should be protected and held confidential. Today manufacturer of smartphone embedded beacon in their device which transmits their customer location. The location data collected are notably used as part of providing services or for contextual advertising (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2016).
Smartphones and tablets are both widely used by more than half of the population worldwide. They deliver speed, convenience, resourcefulness, and enjoyment through the millions of applications that anyone with basic or advanced programming knowledge can make. These applications are available through the IOS and Android markets. Although smartphone and tablet applications provide individuals with information, useful services and entertainment such as maps, Facebook, and even music players such as Pandora, they can also invade an individual’s privacy. Some researchers warn that there are actually a high percentage of smartphone applications that may threaten privacy. Every application must go through compliance requirements and it can be said that most people will not install and/or download any application that they don’t and/or wouldn’t trust. One of the largest concerns for application privacy is the ability for the device to gather personal information on the owner of the device and even additional information from the contact list. Some applications are believed to gather information such as phone numbers and even web habits. The smartphone and tablet alike have changed the way people communicate, work, and find their way through the world, carrying with them what could possibly be the latest tracking device.
One of the most significant concern facing IT industry in the 21st century is legal, social, ethical and professional issues that are associated with appropriate uses of technologies in computing. During the implantation of the Greenwich Freecycling website, many of these issues were encountered. By deploying the correct combination of technologies that is available when implementing the website some of these issues were conquered and overcome.
When it comes to augmented reality, we're looking at something that has found more success in the consumer space when compared to virtual reality. We've seen several applications with AR, along with video game and hardware devices such
Both articles discuss the relationship between burgeoning technology and human ethics and put human morality in the critic position because of the unprecedented technologies. Even though technologies tremendously alter human societies and push humans’ ethics borderlines, people still need to hold their ethical boundaries and define their human values to positively contribute to the society.
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Privacy is dead on the internet and unfortunately, a large part of that is due to the fact that many companies make unethical decisions. Many companies today miss the fact that ethics in business is needed, such as the company Google. Although a large majority of Americans use Google almost every day, most do not realize how unethical many of the company’s decisions actually are. Google is one of the companies towards the top of the list of companies that do not think about the impact of their developments and how it affects the users. These practices have been known about for years and have been publicized, but unfortunately only a small amount of people seem to question the issue of ethics.
Use of computers poses a new challenge for privacy. Privacy is a state of mind, specific place freedom from intrusion or control over the exposure of self of personal information (Czar, 2013). In this day and age, many new rules come into play on how to protect the privacy of the patient. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of ethical use and the unethical issues faced with the use of technology, as well as the impact of specific and a broad range legislation on information technology.
In the early years of computers and computerized technology, computer engineers had to believe that their contribution to the development of computer technology would produce positive impacts on the people that would use it. During the infancy of computer technology, ethical issues concerning computer technology were almost nonexistent because computers back then were not as multifaceted as they are today. However, ethical issues relating to computer technology and cyber technology is undeniable in today’s society. Computer technology plays a crucial role in all aspects of our daily lives. Different forms of computer technology provide unique functionalities that allow people to perform daily activities effectively and efficiently. In
Valid information is information that is correct and can be used for the purpose it has been gathered for without any discrepancies an example of valid information would be attendance reports you send to the office or they receive at the office, it is important this information is valid otherwise it could cause a student to be kicked out for low attendance even if they have been there every lesson.
Technology, as of the year 2015, is so advanced that realism in a virtual world is a reality, But as human beings we are always wanting more and our obsession to reproduce the world and human experience in a virtual setting as brought us to the next step. On the spectrum between virtual reality, which takes computer generated environments, and the real world, augmented reality is as close to the real world as it gets in regards to technology. Augmented Reality or AR, takes our environment and what we see around us and adds graphics, sounds, videos and GPS data to it. It superimposes these in real time. Augmented reality already has and will continue to have a significant impact on how we see the world around us in years to come. There are so
IT Professional is a publication (Keith W. Miller 2009), it is such like book publication, it also has copyright problem, plagiarism problem, and many problems like book publication, so, to be the Professionals, they must act like the book authors to solve these problems. In aspects of IT, the side of ethical problems are including advice on how professionals can recognize, analyze, and make judgments on challenging questions about right, wrong, and computing. Computers have become essential tools of modern humans, regardless life, entertainment, education, work, and business are related with computer. Computer impact on human society very much. So knowing the Information Technology Ethics is very important to everyone, because it is useful to everyone who lives in this
This essay describes relation of ethics with ICT industry. Business ethics is a social science, whose primary point is to characterize and analyse the obligations of organizations and their operators as a piece of the general good environment of a given society. The results of this field of examination are sets of guidelines and codes of behaviour’s, which serve as a method for security from the conceivable encroachments of good codes therefore from the general exercises and obligations of a firm to its stakeholders (e.g. producing benefits for shareholders and charges to the legislature). This paper will quickly clarify the establishments and the developing imperativeness of business morals in today 's economy. At last, it will depict a few contemporary issues of exploration and practice. The 4 views of Richard De George’s in computer ethics describes the relation of ethics with the ICT industry.