Balancing Digital Ethics and Law, in relation to Technology Advancements

Outline: Balacing Digital Ethics and Law, in relation to Technology Advancements.

Thesis: Ethics should be adopted as a fundamental need to be represented in every aspect of Legal regulations that surrounds Technology use and further developments of technological advancement. As This become more essential and to be an integral part of the enterprise will need lot of communication and parties involved. But that Alone Will Give lasting result of Technology advancement, usage and also within ethical boundaries that can be comfortable and benefit from.

I. Two Sides of Available and Upcoming Technology Initiatives

A. Limitless Good Possibilities (Pro)

B. Possible Issues in Use of unlimited Technology (Cons)

1. Ethical Issues now and down the road

2. Moral Issues now and down the road

3. Legal Issues now and down the road

C. How to Strike a Balance between the two aspects?

1. Market and technology Thinktanks need to gather frequently and communicate

2. That Process or systems are available to help the stakeholder work towards striking a balance

3. Technology Company making profits should not be hindered, neither should ethical issues be hindered from being heard and addressed.

II. Diving into The World of Ethics

A, The Definition and Character of Digital Ethics

1. Who gets to Define what is Digital Ethics

2. Is Digital Ethics Definition a Clear one or Gray?

B. Key Factors that work with and around Digital Ethics

1. What Does The Law Require of Digital Ethics?

2. What is Technologically Possible Today? Example: man can be sent to mars

3. The Healthy Discussion of What is Acceptable or Expected as a balance to Law and Ethics in relation to Technology.

C. Who and what does Digital Ethics Affect?

1. Customer, End User

2. Technology Companies, Example: Apple. This could be small businesses or even individuals.

3. Business Owners who use Technology in their companies

4. Businesses who sell Technology products to their customers

III. Case Studies

A. Daily Digital Accessories like SmartWatch Collect data about Lifestyle Patterns and sent the data to the world

1. The Technology is possible and available

2. What are the implications of Privacy breach of sending personnel lifestyle data to outside world (like how well or not one is sleeping)

3. How are the laws going to be developed and enforced that will protect the customer’s right to privacy and still use the technology for personal benefit.

4. The Aspects of Utilitarian, Deontology, Code of Ethics relating to this will be discussed.

B. How does a SmartCar Sharing Data about the user to the world affect privacy while providing convenient Technology gain.

1. The Technology is possible and available

2. What are the implications of Privacy breach of sending personnel lifestyle data to outside world (like how well or not one is Driving) which can affect their insurance rates.

3. How are the laws going to be developed and enforced that will protect the customer’s right to privacy and still use the technology for personal benefit.

4. The Aspects of Utilitarian, Deontology, Code of Ethics relating to this will be discussed.

C. Uses of AI in Workplace.

1. The Technology is possible and available

2. What are the implications of Privacy breach of collecting employee data Which can be used against the employee at any time.

3. How are the laws going to be developed and enforced that will protect the employee’s right to privacy and still allow use the technology for corporate benefit.

4. The Aspects of Utilitarian, Deontology, Code of Ethics relating to this will be discussed.

D. Discussion of various new Technologies that causes concern of not enough attention to Digital Ethics.

1. The Technology is possible and available

2. Review how new technologies are breaching the definition of Digital Ethics in terms of the downside of sharing data to outside world, and or most loss of control for humans.

3. Discuss how communication should happen about what is Ethical or not? (Example: is self-driving cars Ethical in nature?)

IV. The Road to Reality to balance Laws and Ethics

A. Technology, The Laws that Sustain the Technology and the Ethics that surround the implementation of the Technology need to be balanced.

B. How can Technological Advancement be made without compromising Ethics.

1. When Technology is created or planned, the question should be raised in every step of the innovation cycle “Who will be affected and how?

2. If Technology can make many decisions on our behalf (robotics), where is the fine line? This discussion needs to happen Fully between All Parties involved (Technology Creators, Law Makers and Ethics Advocates.)

3. Written Laws for and behind Digital Technology. This has to be reviewed, discussed , debated regularly in a healthy manner and frequently.

4. Unwritten Laws to know for Digital Technology; What about cultural norms which vary vastly.

5. Defining the undefinable. What about Technology that defies a definition, like virtual reality, which is no reality at all.

V. Forging Acceptable Solution between Digital Laws and Digital Ethics.

A. There must be an Ethics Division or department in every avenue of business world: Technology makers, Technology using companies, Technology selling/developing companies.

B. No product should be developed or accepted or released without full consent or approval of the Ethics Department.

C. Technology companies and Technology Products must be peer-reviewed and also customer-reviewed before accepting the product or technology.

D. unbiased teams and committees should be formed, whose members will be from various domains of technology: creators, users, marketers, government, law enforcement etc. These teams will

E. The technology innovator should not do his technology creation on his own. They need to do it only in collaration and agreement with the Ethics Team.

F. Finally a Quality check team should be present who will enforce and uphold the need that board members of company consider the legal and ethical combination perspective for any new digital initiative. This team will make sure there is not lapse in agreed upon balance between the ethics and law in a company structure. This balance is the win-win for the Ethics-Law Dilemma in the Digital World, for now and for the coming generations, so that both law and ethics thrive to enhance the technology in the right way for a long time!!!