2. (a) Prepare an argument for or against the proposition that the following is
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2. (a) Prepare an argument for or against the proposition that the following is ethical behavior. Without telling anyone, your ISP starts tracking every HTTP exchange from all its customers’ computers. They use the data to determine heavy traffic routes to improve service to frequently accessed sites, such as search engines.
(b) Does the argument change if the purpose is to derive revenue by selling the data to advertisers seeking to determine popularity of different sites?
(c) Does the argument change if the purpose is to make traffic records available for government analysis? (Minimum ½ page; maximum 1 page.)
Explanation / Answer
2. A) It is one of the work of Internet Service Proiders to manage good DNS servers, to allow proper and quick response to and from the Internet in doing so, if ISP considers it to track every HTTP exchange from all its customers such that a better and relevant services can be provided to the customers. The main reason the Internet Service Providers started to track down the HTTP exchange here is to ascertain a better service to their customers, this behavior can be considered ethical, since an optimization is on it's way in favour of customers provided confidentiality of data obtained by ISP must be maintained.
2.B) If ISP starts to track down the HTTP exchange to derive revenue by selling the data to advertisers, is an unethical behavior, since the confidential information of the customers is shared without their consents as well as the biased behavior that must have to be one of the ethics of ISP will be violated, since by selling the proprietary information to some of the selected sites or advertisers, he is becoming unbiased towards the other available over the Internet
2.C) In the case of Government Analysis, the sharing of information can be done, because by dong so a series of outcomes can be produced in favour of customers and it is for certain that the information is under a security of well known authority, that is trying to work good something out of the details provided, in this case make availablity of Traffic Records for governmnet analysis, thus providing the possibility of an improvement in traffic and road networking systems currently there.
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