Data Chip Implants - By Lukey, Seang, Yashi
What is your subjective response to the ethical dilemma?
I think that there are too many issues with Data Chip Implants, because there are way to many factors to consider whether this would be an improvement to our society or not. The good things about this device are; it will be easier to track down lost people, find out whether your children are at school or wherever they are, if someone does a crime it will be possible to find them, able to buy things with the information on you hand, able to identify yourself in certain situation such as airports and traffic stops, if you are injured or sent to the hospital they will be able to see your medical history, police could use it in prisons to see the location of the prisoners if they trying to escape. The bad things about this device are hackers can be able to get your information as it is literally on you at all times, your information could be duplicated and sold to someone else and they may pretend to be you, the government can spy on you if you have a bad history and they will be able to track you even if you haven't done anything wrong, viruses may corrupt your data putting in false information on the chip and could harm your health, Big Brother is a concept introduced by George Orwell in the book 1984 Big Brother was a concept which puts people on a tv show 24/7, people could see and watch the life of someone, this obviously is a invasion of privacy and is unethical, it is a form of control which the government can put on people and it has the same ethical issues as the data chip, anyone can be controlled/watched, Panopticon is a system for the design prisons that was introduced by Jeremy Bentham; it stops prisoners from escaping by making them feel like they are being watched 24/7, this concept is basically "are they watching me" and prisoners would never know if someone was in the tower or not, they would be scared and paranoid that if they were doing something wrong they would be seen so they changed their behavior to adjust to the tower, they wouldn't do anything wrong and this is a form of control because it puts the people thinking they were under surveillance even if they wouldn't be, it is another form of control as they would be good even know they were/weren't being watched, being watched 24/7 is unethical and inhumane that's why these prisons are rare in this era as everyone needs privacy. These two concepts are a form of control and unethical
Who are the stake holders?
1) In this scenario who might benefit and who might suffer?
People who benefit from the Chip Implants are the government, hackers and anyone who has a chip scanner. People who may suffers from Chip Implants are those who gets hacked or those who allows others to scan their chip
2) Who would hold the power in this scenario?
The people who would hold the power are people who have in possession of a chip scanner, these people will be able to get your information easily without hesitation. Anyone in government control who has access to these chips and their data would also hold the power in this scenario
3) Could this new technology help to improve or could it worsen the state of society?
There are both upsides and downsides to this device, however I believe that the downsides over-weigh the good that this device would have impact onto our society, surely there will be easily to track lost people or people running from the law or buying something just swiping with your hand, but then anyone who knows how the device works could get your information, buy and sell it to others that are interested in it. they could access your life and destroy it and in both ways will improve and worsen the state of society
4) Could humanity as we know it change?
Yes I believe it could worsen the state of our society because it will increase the rate of crime as it will be easier to access people/shopkeepers information although the chip could help us in other ways such as finding lost people, and causing people to be reliant on the chip
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