Information Privacy
Cell Phoneshttp://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/courts_tackling_tricking_issue.html
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In the movie, to create the artificial intelligence Ava has as well as her physical features, many privacy rights were broken. This was first seen when Nathan admits to hacking into every cell phone on the planet and listening in on each conversation to help build Ava's speech functionality. Nathan takes the full power to listen in on what a user believes to be a private conversation without the user's knowledge. Today, cell phone companies track where, when and how long you visit places on the internet [2]. However, there are usually opt out features to limit the information they give out [2]. When companies made opt out a pay for feature, up roars caused them to drop the idea of a pay for service of anonymity [3]. These services and features of privacy are outlined in the license agreement. However, when Nathan goes a step further of recording the camera and vocals from the phones, one can assume there would be a greater disapproval from the public. From a Kantian standpoint, Nathan is clearly using everyone as a means to an end as not a single cell phone user is gaining anything from Nathan's goal of making artificial intelligence.
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Face and Decision Making
To make Ava have a decision making routine, Nathan used his company's search engine to watch each entry its users made. Although in some user agreements include the tracking of search entries to create directed advertising, the usage of the entries for Ava would not help the society at all. Once again not only is Nathan using humanity for his own gains, he is also breaking into their private lives. Nathan also takes this a step further when he uses Caleb's porn search profile to make Ava's face match women that Caleb found attractive. This shows that Nathan is physically separating certain people's searches out and un-anonymizing the searches he uses, taking away another layer of privacy.
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Nathan's Privacy |
In certain situations as discussed in Ethics for the Information Age, the holder of information may not ethically keep information from the public if the public's concern out weighs the privacy of the individual. If Nathan had disclosed information to the public about his goal of creating an artificially intelligent robot, certain protocols could have been set in place to keep Ava from getting lose or not having a sense of morals herself, just how there are certain protocols that are enforced in the creation and running of industrial robots.
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References
[1] Reginald Fields, "Courts tackling tricky issue of cell phone privacy", (9/28/2015), http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/courts_tackling_tricking_issue.html
[2] Kim Komando, "What cellphone companies don't want you to know", (9/28/2015), http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2015/03/13/cell-phone-privacy/70202468/
[3] Natasha Singer, "AT&T’s Offer: Share Your Data for Personalized Ads, or Pay More", (9/28/2015), http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/atts-offer-share-your-data-for-personalized-ads-or-pay-more/?_r=0
[2] Kim Komando, "What cellphone companies don't want you to know", (9/28/2015), http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2015/03/13/cell-phone-privacy/70202468/
[3] Natasha Singer, "AT&T’s Offer: Share Your Data for Personalized Ads, or Pay More", (9/28/2015), http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/atts-offer-share-your-data-for-personalized-ads-or-pay-more/?_r=0