-In order to do business in China, Google agreed to limit the information it would make available to Chinese citizens. Did Google do the right thing?
-Should a college or university have the right to suspend its students who brag about breaking its rules on social networks?
-Is intellectual property protection needed in order to promote innovation
-Is it immoral to copy music?
-Critics of grocery club cards give examples of card-member prices being equal to the regular product price at stores without customer loyalty programs. In other words, customers who want to get food at the regular price must use the card. Customers pay extra if they don’t want to use the card. Is it fair for a store to charge us more if we don’t want to use its loyalty card? Explain your reasoning.
-Music files downloaded from Apple’s iTunes Store have the purchaser’s name and email address embedded in them. Conceivably, Apple could use this information to learn how much file sharing goes on (e. g., it could find out that a month after Ann purchases a song there are 10 computers that have a copy of Ann’s music file). By including personal information in music files it sells, has Apple violated the privacy rights of its customers?
-In some states there are laws that require lifetime monitoring of some convicted sex offenders after they have been released from prison. The offenders must wear electronic ankle bracelets and stay close to small GPS transmitters, which can be carried on a belt or in a purse. Computers monitor the GPS signals and alert law enforcement officials if the offenders venture too close to a school or other off-limits area. Police interested in the whereabouts of a monitored person can see his location, traveling direction, and speed plotted on a map. Do these laws represent an unacceptable weakening of personal privacy, or are they sensible public safety measures? If your answer is that “they are sensible public safety measures”, then do you think that people convicted of other crimes should also be monitored for life?
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Based upon the workable ethical theories presented in Ethics for the Information Age by Michael Quinn (not necessarily required to use the ethical theories such as Kantianism, act/rule utilitarianism, social contract theory, but should try to use them)
