Ethics Paper: Social and Ethical Responsiblity

Objectives

When you have finished this homework, you should have demonstrated your ability to analyze a problem, describing security flaws and possible legal issues associated with a computer system.

Note, this counts as you Position paper, and is worth 10% of your grade.

Discussion

In order to tighten campus security, the University has decided to place monitoring devices at all automobile entrances to campus. These devices include a camera which takes a picture of the driver and a second camera that takes a picture of the license plate. The system will transmit these images over a wireless network to a central location where the images, along with meta-information will be stored in a database. The database will be available to all officers on the campus police force, but only on computers physically located in the police station.

Do either part A or part B.

  1. Security Issues:
    1. Provide a list of potential security flaws associated with this system.
    2. Describe two of these security flaws in detail.
    3. Describe how these two security flaws can be mitigated.
  2. Social/Legal Issues:
    1. Provide a list of potential legal and or ethical issues associated with this system.
    2. Describe one of these legal/ethical issues in detail.
    3. Describe how this legal/ethical issue can be mitigated.

This will be graded for content and form. You must support your arguments.

Submission

Please upload your document to the D2L assignment folder Homework 2 by the due date.