Lecture 3
Ethics in the Workplace
Privacy and Social Networks
Questions about Assigned Reading
What is considered "fair game" for a company collecting information about prospective employees?
What would you consider to be publically accessible information?
What are some issues with the current or expanded use of E-Verify?
What would you consider to be "fair game" for individuals in crafting their online persona?
How to you feel about employers requiring drug testing (as a prerequisite for hiring, once after hiring, periodically)?
How would you feel about DNA scanning by employers?
What are some issues with mixing personal and work-related social media accounts?
What are some issues with doing work on your own personal devices?
How do you feel about employers monitoring your daily Web searches, online actives, texting, email, and phone conversations?
What are some issues of putting in extra work for your employer in the evenings and on the week-end?
Do you agree that the CFAA should be used to make "violation of terms of use" a crime?
Is Violation of the Terms of Use of a Website a Crime?
Is violating the terms of use of a website a crime under the CFAA’s provision about exceeding one’s authorized access for the purpose
of committing fraud and obtaining something of value? This question is both a legal and a social one: Does it make sense for violation
of terms of use to be a crime?
The first major case involved a woman who pretended to be a 16-year-old boy on MySpace, began an online flirting relationship with a
13-year-old girl in her neighborhood (a former friend of the woman’s daughter), then broke off the relationship and sent cruel
messages. The girl killed herself.
The woman’s behavior was nasty and unethical. People wanted to see her punished, but it was not clear that she had broken any law.
Prosecutors charged her with illegal hacking under the CFAA. They said she exceeded authorized access because she violated
MySpace’s terms of use requiring that profile information be truthful.
A jury convicted the woman, but the judge reversed the conviction. He said in effect that this application of the law was too broad.
Normally, a breach of contract is not a criminal offence, and the CFAA does not state or suggest that it has become one. An ordinary,
reasonable person does not expect that violating the terms of use of a website is a criminal offense.
The decision of one judge, though, does not settle the legal situation. Prosecutions and lawsuits continue to treat violation of terms of
use as a crime under the CFAA.
A Gift of Fire: Social Legal and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology - Sara Baase
The World Wide Web
1. It is decentralized. - An individual or organization can add new information to theWeb without asking for
permission from a central authority.
2. Every object on the Web has a unique address. - Any object can link to any other object by referencing its
address. A Web object’s address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
3. It is based on the Internet.
Twitter
Twitter is a Web-based social networking service that allows its users to send out text messages known as tweets. Tweets are
limited to 140 characters because that’s the maximum length of a cell phone text message. The service is popular because people
who want their friends to know what they are doing find it more convenient to post a single tweet than to type a bunch of text
messages. Many people also use Twitter as a blogging tool; they make their tweets public so that anyone can read them. Other
Twitter members never post tweets, but they sign up to follow the tweets posted by other people they are interested in.
'Rogue' Twitter Account Claims to be Resistance Inside Trump's White House
The resistance is growing from within. At least that is the claim made by a mysterious Twitter account that has developed a rapid
following, releasing what it claims are leaks from directly within the White House of President Trump.
First Amendment
"Think of the Children!"
PORNOGRAPHY
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Privacy
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Caller ID Blocker
Hate Speech
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Fake News
Censorship