1.) Did bungle (or the person controlling Bungle) do anything wrong? Who is responsible for what
happened? Should anyone suffer “real-world” consequences?
Yes, Bungle (or the person controlling Bungle) has done a damage of wrong doing, because Bungle is
destroying the good and reputable image of the company. Also it can affect the people who are
working in the company as a whole and as an individual human.
The company is responsible and they should act immediately for what had happen in LambdaMOO ,
even they have alter some of the codes and this mistake is a stepping stone for them to create more
secure system. Hence as a big corporation that every people or the world is looking at them for what
every steps they are doing as a corporation not as an employee of the corporation and it will have a
great effect on the company’s reputations.
They should teach the person who is liable to the miss used of the program access and other stuff
that create damages for the company to be in a shame issue.
2.) Are there any ethical issues here? Did Facebook do anything wrong? Are employers and law
enforcement agencies do anything wrong when they use the site for their purpose?
Yes, there is ethical issue for the part of the applicant, because people have come from different
walks of life, so they don’t deserve to misjudge by the people easily by mere looing in the social
profile of the person who is partying hard every once in a while.
No, The Facebook site is just only a “social site”, a social site that can be access by the million user
around the world and by different kinds of people , the user gets to manage their profile accounts
how they want to appear to the public as to what extent they can f=view the sensitive information.
Hence the Facebook social site protects their user from those controls and access.
Yes, because they are entering the deeper and private life of the person as an unique individual who
contributes in our world today. Agencies, employers and law enforcement don’t have the right to do
it because if you are the one who is in their shoes what would you feel about it. Every people have a
public and private image to be shown.
3.) What should Kathy do?
Kathy, should research more fact about RFID’s pros and cons that is the RFID would be put to her
mother’s skin as an tracker and to the condition of the Kathy mothers have. As such it’s also better
to ask second opinion from the experts who have more exposure to this kind of technology.
1.) What is encompassed in the question “why computer ethics?” In other words, what more
specific questions are included in the broad question?
Ethics, came from a branch of philosophy, speaks about the morality issue in the field study of
the philosophy branch. The computer ethics tackles about the social impacts of the computer
technology that is emerging so fast at this point of time that some of the people miss used them
in order to satisfy their wants.
This also corresponds to the justification of the policy of vacuums, by Moors. Its shows how
should the computer technology should be used. Hence it is an analysis of the nature of the
computer technology and the corresponding and justification of the policies for the ethical uses
of such kind of technology.
2.) Give concise summary of Moor’s standard account of computer ethics.
In the standard account of Moor’s, it has been said that IT ethics appears smear enthusiastically
to ethical issues, encompassing other new technologies and other new technologies that creates
possibilities to lead to an ethical issues about whether and how to pursue the possibilities create
an option to a human action that hadn’t existed before.
3.) What is a policy vacuum? Give example, and explain it using the standard account.
“When computers create new possibilities, the new possibilities take us into uncharted territory,
situations in which it’s uncertain what are the issue or what are the ethical norms are germane.
“ . In this passage describe the uncertainty the mostly surround the invention and the new
adaptation of the new technologies that surround us and we are using in our daily lives as a
human to have move faster and reliable.
Eg. (In the early days the computer is owned by universities, schools and companies, therefore
people start to store files. In the early days when the computer was available there were no
institutional policies and legal policies with regards with the access and used of such kind of
technologies, the status of computer files were unclear until now where it should be treated as
personal or a private property of a user.)
4.) What is a conceptual muddle, and how do they get in the way of filling policy vacuums?
Illustrate with an examples.
The conceptual muddle is weather to have the software to be patent and be copyright, such that
programmers/creators can’t have the same building blocks of ideas. In extend to that not all
people start from scratch in creating a program for a specific company, people / community.
They also have the building blocks of idea to be shared and from that point they develop
further that creates more function.
Eg. The copyright and patent of software to grant an ownership of an expression of an idea or
the building blocks of the electronic world. The law specified that abstact ideas laws of nature
and mental steps can’t be owned.
5.) What is wrong with the standard account of computer ethics? Identify at least two criticisms,
and explain.
The standard account of computer ethics is wrong because the I.T does not make a new
application even its new which people has the familiar technology has the knowledge to use the
new technology.
6.) What are two tenets of the view referred to as “technological determinism”? What is the STS
critique of each tenet?
a.) Application of the new readily ethical issues involving other new technologies.
b.) Shifting away from the focus on newness, which avoids the presumption that seems to
accompany it. It is the application of newness.
7.) What is wrong with thinking of technology as merely material objects?
Technology is a mere material object in the lives of people, there are some point that it is
already wrong with the thinking of technology because , some of the people just took advantage
ot if for their selves . The self-interest that satisfy their wants as a human that creates chaos to
the work place or to the environment where they are moving freely a democratic people.
8.) What is a sociotechnical system?
The sociotechnical system is a foundation of IT to develop ethics by using “STS” insights,
concepts and theories. This is the simplification, to provide a quick overview of the core ideas in
the “STS”.
9.) Choose a familiar technology and describe its values.
The Reject Technological Determinism/Think Coshaping. This has two claims:
a.) Technology develops independently from the society – the technology has its own evolution
of development from the previous development , just like the Apple, The company has used
the all the technology and created on one phone which is IPhone, that is touch screen,
music player, many application of games, videos, business application , e-book reader and
etc.
b.) When technology is taken up and used in a society, it determines the character of the
society- this can cause the wide range decision of the macro level. Just like the Japan , the
country is known for its most advance technology in the world, so many people are tyring to
catch up with the fast phase development of technology so they can say that they are the
most powerful in the market, and in the world .
10.) What is the difference between micro-level ethical issues and macro-level ethical issues? Give
examples of each
The micro-level ethical issues are more focused on individuals, their choices, and their behavior
as individual human being.
EG. ( Kathy’s mother at the Golden Oak’s that the association is asking the acquiescence to put
RFID in her mother’s skin to have an easy one-to-one care and have a fast valuation of the
record of the patient.)
The macro-level , base on the word “macro” means big. This deals with the organizations,
groups, the nation or even a country.
EG. (What are the hospitals policies and procedure regarding the RFID’s device that will be used
in each patients to have an easy valuation of the patients)
11.) Why is the study of ethics and technology needed? Why is the study of ethics, and IT in
particular needed?
The study of ethics in the technology and IT is most needed because we know how fast the IT
industry change its technology from point A to point b and furthermore that will best surpass
the needs of every people in their daily lives as an individual and as a company that will help
them to secure the needs of the company.
Erstwhile people are temp to do immoral moves to satisfy their question at the back of their
minds, that where the technology is being critiqued . As a matter fact people construct the
move to make the IT / technology to be bad and negative to others.