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The incident described in this article is a situation of who takes responsibility for an algorithm’s actions. The algorithm in question is named the Random Darknet Shopper. The Darknet Shoppers purpose was to purchase an item from the darknet with 100 dollars that it was given every Wednesday and ship them to the designers ofContinue reading “Who is Responsible if A Robot Buys Illegal Drugs?”

Orwin’s article is a brief opinion piece that was released to the globe and mail in 2012.  Orwin’s main theme in this article is disproving the common myth that the future of education is online. Orwin argues that there is a place for online education for those who simply cannot afford to be able toContinue reading “Response to Orwin’s article on Online Education”

The story the “Right to Read” by Richard Stallman is a fictional short story describing the ethical dilemma that is faced by a young student Dan when his peer asks to borrow his laptop to write a midterm. The dilemma comes because in this fictional world there are organizations that enforce heavily the licensing onContinue reading “The Right to Read between Fantasy and Reality”

Currently there are many video game rating systems. The point of video game rating systems is to give parents and consumers an idea of the appropriateness of the content of a game before purchasing. There are rating systems like ESRB The Entertainment Software Rating Board, the Australian classification system and the CERO system which isContinue reading “Online and In Game Video Games Rating System”

The right to be forgotten describes a right in which you have the ability to request deletion of personal data that has been disseminated throughout the internet. Some of the values that are put at tension because of this right are the values of free speech and the values of self preservation on the internet.Continue reading “The Right to Be Forgotten”

The FBI-Apple dispute was probably one of the first instances in which the common person will have heard of the idea of an encryption backdoor. This is the idea of giving government or investigators backdoor access to encrypted data by asking the company to open a back door or give a master key to FBIContinue reading “Encryption Backdoors”

In this blog post I will be looking at the issue of anonymous comments. Many websites and institutions have for a long time offered a way to make comments on the content that was provided, whether that be letters to the editor, YouTube comments, a yelp review of a restaurant. Some of these commenting systemsContinue reading “Should Anonymous Comments be Allowed”

In the story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas the author paints a picture of a perfect society in which everyone lives happily, there are good harvests, life seems simple and bountiful. Omelas sounds like a place that is perfect to everyone within it. But in order for the wellbeing of omelas to beContinue reading “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”

Social media privacy has long been a topic of interest. If you boil down the term you have two important concepts social media and privacy. The words social media imply that there is some media that you want to distribute to friends or within your social group. A social media company aims to offer youContinue reading “Social Digital Privacy: Myths or Facts”

Over the course of the last week I have been attending the first classes in which we have been covering topics related to Ethics,values and conflicts. As a class four activities were conducted in order to cover the topic of conflict ethics and values. The first activity was the peer introduction exercise this was anContinue reading “My Reflections on Values and Conflict Activities”