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Criterion A
Privacy is an ethical and social issue related to this article. The bio chip implanted in a human being can be used as a tool to easily transfer and receive data. However, these workers can be watched and surveilled. If so, privacy can be violated.
The user that was implanted can easily send the information about him or her to anybody who can scan the biochip.
Criterion B
Technician implants the biochip under a person's skin. The RFID is now implanted in the human being. This will store certain important medical data of that person. Now this data / signal can be received by a scanner or a reader by anyone it may concern (e.g a doctor). However, there should be certain policies of how these can be read like only some people who the person approves, or authenticate should be allowed to scan the information.
Since this IT system uses RFID and small biochip that contains crucial health information about a human being, their personal data can be easily access by anyone who can scan the biochip. There is a privacy issue linked to this because information like personal health records is really private and people would not want to freely give them out to everybody. It is also uncertain whether some people can actually take some track of that person following that signal. This also gives a high risk of violating a person's privacy as it can know where the person went, what they did and things like that.
Criterion C
Stakeholders
1) Users (Employees or people who got the biochip implanted)
It could be beneficial to users because the process for sending their personal information becomes really easy, less time consuming and simple. They might not need to write down their personal medical records, or CV tediously using pen on a paper. They will be able to just scan their RFID and it will send the correct information to the scanner and shown on the output devices. However, their privacy is in danger as the boss can track the movement and activities of the employees. This is dangerous because there is no certainty.
2) Company
Easier track of the activities of employees will satisfy the boss as they can control productivity of them. they can also reduce some kind of electricity fees using the auto turn on-and-off light using the RFID Signal. However, the initial cost for this implantation may be high and the company will most likely to be in charge of this initial cost. Business and employment can be the ethical concern here.
Criterion D
Usage of improved ID Card can be the solution to prevent the violation of the employee's privacy. This is what is actually happening right now, and I see that planting the chip inside the card will be enough. As the user can simply take it off whenever they want to. This maybe not so happy for the boss as the users can avoid using it, but they can improve the ID card somehow so that the employees can not take it off during work session. This can reduce the harm of violating the privacy and also the danger of reliability of this new technology of planting something under your skin.
Criterion A
Describe one social/ethical concern to the IT system
- Reliability and integrity is the social/ethical concern to the IT system because having a chip inside our skin is not 100% reliable and might cause false information or carrying diseases.
Describe the relationship of one primary stakeholder to the IT system
- The person who have the biochip inside their skin are the primary stakeholder because the information given by the biochip might be inaccurate and not reliable.
Criterion B
Describe, step by step, how the IT system works
- Chip inserted into the skin
- Chip scan the skin
- Chip read the scanned result
- Chip send the result through radio signal
- User receive the result
Explain the relationship between the IT system and the social/ethical concern described in Criterion A
- The biochip scan with input device and read the result then send it to the sent signal to the user through network or radio wave. However, the hardware (biochip) might read the wrong result on the output device.
Criterion C
Evaluate the impact of the social/ethical issues on the relevant stakeholders
- Doctors can benefit from the use of this technology because they will be aware of the disease that the user is having, moreover, they can also know how long have the patients suffer the illness and having more information about the disease of the patient. There are also disadvantages for doctors because the information given by the biochip might not be very accurate and the doctor might give the wrong medicine for the patient and causing troubles.
Users can benefit from the use of this technology because they will be aware of the disease they are having and they will also be informed by the biochip when they are not feeling well. However, there are also disadvantages from using the biochip because the information given might not be accurate, meaning not reliable. Also there patient have to insert the biochip into their body and it might cause permanent damage.
Criterion D
Evaluate one solution that addresses at least one problem identified in Criterion C
- One solution that could be given is to have an on and off button to the microchip, this will help solve the privacy problem because by having the biochip inside the body the computer will be able to track the users every time 24/7. By having an on and off button users will benefit because they will have more privacy and they will turn off the biochip that can be used as tracker when they want to have their own privacy. However, the disadvantage would be that to add an off and on button the biochip might need to be thicker and not everyone wants to have a thick biochip. Another reason is that the company will have to increase the cost because adding an on and off button will cost more.
a. Describe one social/ethical concern related to the IT system in the article
Privacy & Anonymity is a concerning issue that can be found in this ITGS article. Inserting chips under human skin allows them to be tracked everywhere by companies. Using that biochip may also reveal information such as DNA, fingerprints, etc.
b. Describe the relationship of one primary stakeholder to the IT system in the article.
Whoever will implant biochip to human skin (technicians) will be paid to a modest amount of fee. Since it requires someone with some medical skills to implant the chip to the right spot.
Criterion B:
a. Describe, step-by-step, how the IT system works.
The ‘operators’ implant biochip under a human’s forearm skin. The chip has a special network that connects to the IT system of the company, which allows them to watch over the employees and does several features such as tracking down their location, take a sample of their cells, DNA, anything that’s biological. This process will only works with a special type of software, that needs to made specifically for that kind of communication.
b. Explain the relationship between the IT system and the social/ethical concern described in Criterion A.
Because of the biochip implanted under their skin, taking them out will be almost impossible. Thus with it, company will still be able to track their employees down despite not on working hours, though it might not have any effect to the employees, it is still the same as getting involved with what they do on their private life, and tracking them down might as well reveal ‘forbidden’ places such as their parent’s house, friend’s house, mall they always go to, etc.
Criterion C:
a. Evaluate the impact of the social/ethical issues on the relevant stakeholders.
It’s possible that there will be barely any impact to the relevant stakeholders when it comes to the privacy issues. Except that they will feel embarrassed that when they are doing something private such as dating, going to the mall and still have the company tracked them down. What’s even worse is that placing these chips can have the companies abuse it’s use by continuing to disturb the employee’s private life.
There’s barely any other advantage for employees to have a chip implanted under their skin, except that they can keep the employees to full obedience, get their work done on time, not to be late, which is a huge move for companies to make huge profits.
Overall, there shouldn’t be any problem if putting chips under the employee’s skin. Despite the disadvantages I can fathom, it’s very unlikely if companies wanted to do something that ridiculous such as abusing biochip to disturb people’s private life, etc.
Criterion D:
a. Evaluate at least one possible solution that addresses at least one problem identified in Criterion C.
The best way is to limit the number of people that can gain access to this information. Thus when those people open the software, a password and key number is made, so that no other people can gain access. This will only allow certain number of people to be able to use that IT system in order to track down their employees.
However, the solution is not really at a high advantage, hackers or even workers tend to be very cunning, and managed to penetrate their way through the system, by whatever illegitimate software they can find, like Trojan Horse, etc. To get that information and abuse it.
But this solution, as overall, should work just fine. Because it's effective despite how simple it is. And I'm not entirely certain why the hackers wanted to steal DNA information, they don't really have anything useful to that, and those biological data are stored in an extremely secured software that belongs to the hospital/ government, and even if they did managed to break through, I don't see any exact advantage of it.
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