While new technology grows rapidly, we are benefiting from the convenience of new products. However, do we lost anything from this technology revolution? Do you have the experience that when you browse something on Amazon, and you get advertising about that thing in websites you visited, in your email’ inbox, in everywhere where you can see?
Sometimes, we like this kind of advertisement, since it shows us some related items that we are interested in. Sometimes, it gets annoying since we might just bought some paper towels, and we definitely are not interested in knowing all brands of paper towels. Nevertheless, have we thought about how could every website knows what we want or what we bought? Is it possible that the computer may know what we like better than ourselves? Is it legal for that to happen since it kind of violates our privacy? If it is not legal, how could we build policies about it?
In James Moor’s article, Why We Need Better Ethics for Emerging Technologies, he points out that “we are confronted with policy vacuums, and we need to formulate and justify new policies for acting in these new kinds of situations”. However, how do we decide what the new policy is? What should be the bottom line for the trade-off between privacy and convenience? This is where learning ethics in information technology comes is. By learning ethics in information technology, we could better know what we are doing, and more importantly, we could learn how to fill these policy vacuums and make appropriate adjustments for the technology revolution.
images are from:
https://resources.symphonytalent.com/blog/3-ways-to-make-advertising-that-works
https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-personal-data-collection/
Hi Jinghan,
ReplyDeleteI really like how your blog addresses the reader by asking logical questions and definitely helps hook the reader into the post. I think it would be a good idea to introduce the James Moor's article earlier on and relate it to your post more. I would also try to make the title of the blog a little bit more engaging to help hook the reader in within the first few seconds. Overall it was a great post!
Hi Jinghan, I liked the images you included in the post. I think you could make your introduction more compelling by including fewer questions. There are also some grammatical errors that need to be corrected. For example, the second question in your intro contains too many commas and there should not be an apostrophe between email and inbox. You should explain the tactics used by advertising companies to provide insight into how invasive they are.
ReplyDeleteYou did put efforts in your blog, and I like your perspective that we see ethics in our information technologies. However, I hope you could bring up the articles' idea earlier in your blog, so that we can see more connections.
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