Imagine you are evaluating a technology that may have potential long term or extended effects. For this

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Imagine you are evaluating a technology that may have potential long term or extended effects. For this question consider the idea of "Function-creep," that a function can change over time, often the gradual expansion of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended. One common version of Function-Creep is the potential invasion of privacy or other negative effect when the ability to use or collect information is a design function. For example, using COVID tracking data for law enforcement purposes. Using CCTV cameras to monitor staff and punishing them for minor behaviors using cameras intended to prevent shop-lifting. Function-creep can violate the principle of purpose limitation, which requires that personal data should be collected for specified legitimate purposes only or the data is being misused.

How should you think about this issue? To answer this question you must include the following:

(A) Use three or more course concepts/terms.

(B) Describe what ethics are in conflict in a case like this, how that conflict between intention and potential may cause a

problem for 3 or more different groups of people, and for decision-making.

issues mentioned in the examples above.

(D) Using Course concepts, make an ethical argument about what your responsibility or response to the issue of function

creep should be, according to a specific theory, and in a specific role/context.

(E) If possible according to your ethical argument above, suggest a normative (Proscriptive/Prescriptive) rule, or a set of

ethical guidelines, that you would suggest as a way to balance or remedy for this contradiction/tension. Explain how the answer you give would meet the needs of the multiple ethics you describe as in conflict.