September 4 (Tuesday)
September 6 (Thursday)
- ACM Code
- Guest Speaker: David Hakanson
- Alexa Readings
- USA Today: Northeastern U Link.
- TechCrunch
- SLU Installing Alexa
- Alexa Eavesdropping
- USA Today: Northeastern U Link.
- GFP:
Does the ACM's Code of Ethics give sufficient guidance to computer professionals? Consider the case of SLU installing Amazon Alexa in its dorm rooms? Is it ethical?
September 11 (Tuesday)
- Cogent CyberEthics, Ch. 2
- NPR: Irresistible By De sign
- "Flourishing Ethics," TW Bynum
- GFP:
What "moral triggers" does Aristotle's virtue ethics identify in habit-forming social media & other app designs, as described by Harris and Coca? (If you're not sure what a moral trigger is, review Cogent Cyberethics, chap 1, esp. p. 19.)
September 18 (Tuesday)
- Cogent CyberEthics, Ch. 4
- Do You Read Terms Of Service Contracts? Not Many Do, Research Shows
- What Is Consent
- Consent and Rights
- GFP:
What obligations do designers and software companies have in constructing and ensuring informed consent of user agreements?
September 27 (Thursday)
- 1st Half of Cogent CyberEthics, Chapter 6
- Apple Trust
- GFP
Read the Apple TRUST article and think about the values implicated in such a practice. Are there any potentially weighty values that are furthered and/or hurt? Explain using the value typology.
October 2 (Tuesday)
- 2nd Half of Cogent CyberEthics, Chapter
- Read Moor, Just Consequentialism
- China's Social Credit Score
- GFP
Consider China's Social Credit Score in light of your last GFP's analysis. What weighty values have changed? Is this morally acceptable?