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Lachlan Hatfield

UK patients' data uploaded to Google servers, - 0 views

  • share patient data with researchers and private companies
  • entire patient database for the NHS has been uploaded to Google servers.
  • sensitive patient data has been uploaded -- to Google servers
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    This is a serious social and ethical issue. People have no idea who is going to be able to see their private medical information. Although the British need to trust both the UK government and Google to do the right thing with their data.
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    absolutely there is no privacy anymore. What would be the impact of sharing such critical information on patient. Who can see this database? who can edit it?
dentonlamb

Stephen Hawking: Humans evolve slowly, AI could stomp us out - 0 views

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    We think of ourselves as evolved creatures. It's just that sometimes we forget how slow that evolution is. Along comes Stephen Hawking to remind us that artificial intelligence might just evolve a little quicker than we're prone to. The result could be the end of our evolution and, indeed, the end of us.
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    Scenario: Human design a robot that is more intelligent than us. It realizes that it can evolve faster than us, and so no longer has any need for us, leading to the death of the human race. Social and ethical: The main point in this article is that we will develop our own ends. That we will develop a machine that will have the capability to perhaps kill us. Stake Holders: Steven Hawking is a stake holder in this article as he is the one who suggested that we should be thoughtful about our development of intelligent machines. Humanity: Robots could become more powerful than we could ever be really fast, and so end us. AI companies will have to worry about and have ways to prevent this. IT System: Currently we do not have the technology to enable this level of complexity in both Hardware and Software, however Moore's Law states that we are getting closer to this with every year.
danielabimibola

Shoppers cheated by supermarket scanners - National - NZ Herald News - 0 views

  • It's worth knowing that these machines aren't infallible."
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      ITGS Shopper cheated by supermarket scanners
  • "I think it should be of real concern to consumers. If you translate it into monetary terms, it has to be in the millions of dollars. "The implications from a study like this are massive. Consumers in New Zealand are not making enough noise about it yet," he said. In one case, a supermarket offered bottles of coke for 99c, but displayed the wrong size bottles under the sign, and charged the shopper $3.
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      These paragraphs talk about the implications that the technology error caused in the society.
  • In another, a cooked chicken was advertised on sale for $6.99, but the original price of $11.99 was charged at the checkout. In this case, Pickering said, the mistake was spotted and the customer was given the chicken for free. But more often, retailers respond badly when errors are pointed out. Shoppers who took part in the study reported sales people "rolling their eyes" when asked for a refund, having to fill out forms to get a $2 overcharge returned, and being offered cash refunds only when the original purchase was by credit card. "The errors are happening right across the retail area, particularly large-scale stores," Pickering said. "When you're pumping 100 items through a till, it's much easier to make a mistake and much more difficult for the customer to keep up with the things flying through the scanner."
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      This part of the article discusses the social impact on the society as a result of the development in a technological problem. It talks about the economic importance of this because a lot of consumers are losing money which transfers to millions of dollars in total. 
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  • Pickering said he'd like to see companies here make efforts to solve the problem. "There's an opportunity for these big businesses to say, 'The problem exists, we haven't been able to sort it out completely, but we going to do something about it'."
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      What feasible solutions can be applied to overcome problems? This paragraph talks about the fact that the supermarkets don't knowthe solution but are trying to work it out.
    • samaraad
       
      Good contribution Daniel
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    Shoppers cheated by supermarket scanners - National - NZ Herald News This is your first ITGS article you were suppose to read. what ethical issue can you see here?
zhoujiazhen

AVG's Invisibility Glasses Will Protect You against Facial Recognition Tech | Wall Stre... - 0 views

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    I chose this article because it's has close connection with this course. The invention of AVG invisibility glass relates to both social issues that the efficiency of CCTV in public places might be reduced and it will become harder to stop discrimination, also ethical issue that the privacy of a person might be protected. The use of technology that relates to infrared LED light is also worth further learning and investigating.
danielabimibola

BBC News - The future is fidgetal - 2 views

  • Technology, and the hype that surrounds it, is changing the way we speak. But we don't have to turn into drones, all spouting the latest i-word. Chris Bowlby says it's time for the techno-bullied to fight back with their own subversive speak.
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      First of all, using technology does not make one a drone and secondly adding words to a language does not make that language any less as useful but instead makes it more diverse.
    • Alen Xia
       
      Yes, I agree.
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    very interesting article Daniel. But make sure to use new articles as with technology things change very quickly. This article was dated 2010. But good start.
Lachlan Hatfield

Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet | Open Policy - 1 views

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    interesting Lachlan thanks for sharing, I wonder if neutrality could ever be protected anymore.
carlo_ikin

Why e-voting is not a good thing - 0 views

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    Scenario: the shortest most accurate scenario is that voting machines are terrible choice as they are now. The longer version is that the old rules for security will either have to change or there will be major security issues such as vote auditing will have to be done with software which has to be checked and the software checking that has to be checked. or if votes are kept anonymous there is no way of knowing if 30% of votes were deleted then filled with fake ones. Social ethical issues: If the technology is compromised then it allows the peoples opinion to be hidden by stronger powers. This can lead to dictatorships or buying victories instead of winning them. It systems: the ease of computers also allows for ease of changing things. This means that there is no way (yet) to separate the pros from the cons . Stakeholders: Political parties, business, hackers, countries
carlo_ikin

How to Fix Our Broken Patent System (In regard to software) - 1 views

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    senario: Big companies are patenting software either that they don't owen or is to broad this means that if any developer find//wants to make an actuall solution they either get sued or have to pay the companies money to use the patient. Social/ethical: THis means that fat cats make money while there is still no actual solotion to these problems. Stake Holder: developers and big buissniess
dentonlamb

Hacked! - 1 views

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    As email, documents, and almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives moves onto the "cloud"-remote servers we rely on to store, guard, and make available all of our data whenever and from wherever we want them, all the time and into eternity-a brush with disaster reminds the author and his wife just how vulnerable those data can be.
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    Scenario: Here a women's Gmail account was hacked in this article, and the hack spammed her contacts with the general message about her being mugged outside her country and needs help, with her bank details there for money transfer. Social Ethical issues: The main issues here are security, as her Gmail account may contain personal information, which could be used to steal money. Hacking is a major problem when it comes to security of personal information. Trust is another problem, as how can you trust anything online, as it is easy to impersonate someone else. IT system: Email system by Google here is the main IT source and is in the end responsible for the security of her account. Stakeholder: Google and the owner of the gmail account.
danielabimibola

Influence of Technology on Politics - 1 views

  • Never Say Never
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      Social And Ethical Implications
  • The Power Of Political Pundits
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      Implications: Is this verifiable? Are these claims legitimate? What stops people form posting garbage?
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    The Influence Of Technology On Politics
dentonlamb

Personal data on 50,000 Uber drivers exposed in breach - 1 views

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    The names and license plate numbers of about 50,000 Uber drivers were compromised in a security breach last year, the company revealed Friday. Uber discovered a possible breach of its systems in September, and a subsequent investigation revealed an unauthorized third party had accessed one of its databases four months earlier, the company said.
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    that's a perfect example of ethical issues such as privacy as the data might contain phone numbers, addresses of people, and there is security issue as we do not know how the data will be used
richardlu97

What Makes E-commerce Work in Indonesia? - 1 views

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    E-commerce companies in Indonesia have found a recipe for success by going after a growing pool of consumers with access to the Internet but not the brick and mortar shops selling what they want, in order words, they have tasted the power of IT
dentonlamb

New simulation could shed light on dark energy and expansion of the universe - 0 views

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    Scientists have created the most accurate way yet of simulating the way the universe expands. Dubbed "gevolution", the tool will for the first time allow researchers to take into account the effect of ripples in spacetime - known as gravitational waves - and could help shed light on dark energy, the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerated expansion.
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    The article is about how with the discovery of gravitational waves, they are creating a model that will now have the element of gravity/ 'the effect of ripples in space-time'. This will allow researches to now explore dark energy and if it exists. Here the Stakeholders are scientists and programmers making the model and simulation. The scientist, as they will be using the simulation and the programmer as they'll create the programs for it to run on. Mathematicians too will be involved, as they will have to take what is research and transform in into equations. The main social ethical significance will be that science advancing forwards with a new understanding of the universe we live. This will allow us to come up with new models for everyday life as well as optimization of existing models. However some people see this idea as a waste of time as the newton's model work well already at simulating the universe. The new model however will cost a lot and time to program the software involved, but will allow for a greater degree of detail and accuracy to models of the universe. The main IT systems involved are super computers that have to compute the models of the universe inside them. These will have to compute complicated equation together to then develop a simulation that can be further observed by researches. Software will be a major aspects as it will have to be programed to use new equation along side exist equations to generate a new model.
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