Exam 7: Ethical Issues Regarding Emerging Technologies

According to "Internet Content Providers and Complicity in Human Rights Abuse," Jeffery D. Smith sees which of these actions as a potential violation of human rights

Deborah Johnson, in line with her essay, "Privacy and Internet Ethics", would determine that facts in the case "Privacy at MyFriends.com" call for immediate discontinuation of the social networks' use of the developers sharing personal information.

In "Privacy and Internet Ethics", Deborah Johnson's main argument for the continued use of technology to mine greater amounts of personal data is that if people are doing nothing wrong, there is really no need to worry.

the panoptic gaze is highlighted as a metaphor in "Privacy and Internet Ethics" to demonstrate notions of power and control by organizations and institutions.

Taking away intellectual property protection, as suggested in "Intellectual Property Rights, Moral Imagination, and Access to Life-Enhancing Drugs", may serve to actually increase health disparities between developed and developing nations.

Werhane and Gorman would argue that in the case "Patents and the African AIDS Epidemic", pharmaceutical companies are obliged to creatively seek out ways to provide easier and more affordable AIDS treatment to developing nations.

De George explains that the Orphan Drug Act encourages and provides incentives for pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs to treat small markets unlikely to allow for profit.

Werhane and Gorman do not argue the notion that, in the short-run, the elimination of patent laws would benefit consumers by way of lower drug costs but that long-term effects may not be as favorable.

Copyright and patent laws, as pointed out by Werhane and Gorman, are unique to the U.S. and aren't found elsewhere in the world.

According to Jeffery Smith, what basic human rights are violated by Chinese regulatory efforts on the internet

Name the two market failures highlighted by De George that help explain the Production Obligation. One is related to a type of drug while the other is related to disease.

Werhane and Gorman argue that intellectual property is hardly the result of one company's hard work but instead is developed from a complex set of relationships that often goes back centuries and is often causally ambiguous, making it difficult to parse out responsibility. They turn to their "alliance model" to address a new mental model of approaching intellectual property and the pharmaceutical industry. Evaluate the five points to the model.

A primary concern in "Intellectual Property and Pharmaceutical Drugs: An Ethical Analysis", is that profits should never trump the right to basic health care and access to medicine.

In "Internet Content Providers and Complicity in Human Rights Abuse" Jeffery D. Smith argues that while ICPs may be complicit in human rights abuse they may strive to minimize their complicity. Do you believe that the strategies he imagines are sufficient to absolve ICPs of any moral wrongdoing that arises from their complicity in these abuses. Why or why not. If not what do you believe that ICPs should do

Advances in technology, as highlighted by Johnson in "Privacy and Internet Ethics", have allowed us to all but erase the effect of erroneous information on individuals' lives.

According to Richard T. De George in "Intellectual Property and Pharmaceutical Drugs: An Ethical Analysis" pharmaceutical companies justify their high profits by arguing that:

Highlight two ways as highlighted by Deborah Johnson that enhanced information gathering and storage has enabled organizations to operate for the better.

According to "Internet Content Providers and Complicity in Human Rights Abuse," Jeffery D. Smith would likely contend that direct violations are the most morally problematic form of complicity in human rights violations

Jeffrey Smith cites regulatory efforts to block access to Web sites, filter information, shut down information portals, and gather information off the Internet on activities of individuals as a violation of basic human rights.

Werhane and Gorman describe situations when health and security concerns have "trumped" intellectual property rights. What situation can you imagine would call such measures