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Do you think it is ethical to use automated technologies to monitor and control natural human behaviors?

This is a question about using technologies to do unethical, illegal, unconstitutional, unprincipled things. I'm thinking of leash cell-phones sold to parents to enable to track at will the location of their teenager-children through GPS. Privacy be damned! I'm thinking of indiscriminate traffic cameras at intersections to catch, and convict, and then fine anyone out of position during light changes either intentionally or by error? 4th amendment due process, presumption of innocence, and probable cause, and police state concerns all be damned. I'm thinking of national ID cards with smart technologies indicating your identity and providing information about you on an involuntary basis. Privacy and the Bill of Rights be damned. I'm thinking of warrantless searching of communications. etc. My question is staked from my position on the technologies I sighted. Though the details I added at the time I posed the question express my orientation to my own question, I was expecting answers based on addressing the question asked and not on irrelevant personal criticisms like the adhominems posted by Kay. The ignorance and the stupidity of some people is really scary especially when they have no real understanding ofthe way technologies with anti-privacy, anti-constitutional implications are being designed and deployed. Please consider the importance ofthe automated element which removes humans from the equation and thus dehumanizes us all. Please remember to explain your position going beyond simple no's or yes's. I note that many have done so already. Sometimes I wish one could discuss the Q&A after the Q is resolved. That would provide the participants an opportunity to indicate what they learned or how they have changed intheir thinking. The comment section is inadequate.

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Put simply, no.
no, we deserve our freedom!!! Let us do as we want, and we'll end up making the right choices out of good ol' fassion fear of death, that's why there are governments!
I agree with you completely and have thought of this lately. If this is the culture of parent-child control, it undermines what we (should) want our kids to know and understand about the gift of being Americans. Why should kids be concerned about state control if they are trained to acquiesce to parental authoritarian control exercised in the ways you've enunciated in your question? Parents, go Old School! KNOW your kids by TALKING with your kids - don't electronically tag them and then call yourselves "good parents".
The way things are going...nothing is ethical. Do you think baring children to a teen mother is ethical or an older woman who is poor? or what about having the cure for all illness and not using it? What about giving a job to someone because you know them and not to someone who needs it? There are so many problems in the world today. Instead of thinking about what is unethical we need ppl who are willing to do something about it. I support tracking....ppl steal kids all the time and what privacy...we have been bugged tracked followed and spied on since before Filmore. Lol
not really. interesting topic though.
e deserve our freedom, certainly. Unfortunately, we have lost our ability to trust, and rightfully so. Your refer to natural human behavior, but your examples are of criminal or deceitful human behavior. If mom and dad could believe junior is really at the library, then there would be no need for the GPS cell phone. But apparently junior somehow betrayed their trust. If people wouldn't run red lights because they think they're exempt from the law, then there wouldn't be a need for cameras at intersections. Sure, we are innocent until prooven guilty. But you seem to take issue with the proof. If we have nothing to hide, then what's the problem? Its not freedom in question, it is truth. But I'm sure a lawyer can get you off, so don't worry.
Perhaps you are not familiar with leading questions, rhetoric, or non-agreement, but you are very good at it. Why would you start off asking if something is ethical if you have already made up your mind that it is UNethical according to your detailed description? 1. Children have no right to privacy because they are INCAPABLE of making sound decisions for the most part. You'll likely learn this when you're older. Not only that, parents love and are responsible FOR their children and KNOW that their children are in a constant self-induced struggle for power. I'm not saying children have no rights, only that they do not supercede the responsibilities of parents. 2. You do not have the right to privacy in public. If you break the law, you are just as likely to get popped by a cop as you are by a camera. The cameras just save me some tax dollars by popping you with technology instead of a policeman. Also, do you think Carlie Brucia's killer ever would have been caught if not for surveilance cameras? Do you think crime would have gone down in the worst area of Compton without cameras? Relax, they're there for the bad guy... 3. You got me on the national IDs. Tough subject for me because there is a constitutional right not to be badgered for ID without probable cause. However, in this current age of America haters such as yourself, I've got no problem with it. 4. You need to recheck your information and regulations regarding warrantless wire-tapping, who has done it and why, presidential powers regarding non-domestic communications, and the actual communications that were tapped recently.
I disagree 1. Incase a teenager gets kidnapped, how wil the parents track, if GPS wasn't there.? 2. Imagine : Bin laden comes to town, err- annonymous. Without ID cards, who'l keep track of who's coming- who's going? Obviously you cant expect 100% out of anything. But it still keeps the sytem intact to some safe limit. 3. Camera's:- damn, if someones being molested/ shot behind the camera's kep track of everything. atleast you can walk around safely? I think, the gadgets are for one's own safety, and precaution. do your thing at home, keep your cell phones switched off, while doing it. you dont ahve to do it on the streets now do you? ;)
i do not think it is ethical but people are too stupid sometimes to realize when their rights are being stepped on. they've had their heads pushed down too long.
No, it is not ethical to monitor others using technology. I guess, if you put it out on the internet you are making it public and if people want to google it, then no big deal. You made it public. But spyware, tracking devices, and big brother technology etc. not right.
This is a stupid question. What anyone personally thinks doesnt matter. Its all majority and minority based. Even still these rules dont really apply either. Its up to a society to give the correct (as they see fit) powers to its legislative and judicial branches. Which ultimately boils down to trends and or fads in thinking. Usually determined by who has money and who wants the money. Personally I think that it really doesnt matter. Theyll get you one way or another. Does it matter weather its seen as unethical? That really wont stop anyone from doing anything.
We just have to accept two things about technological advances and the internet. Number one: you have no privacy anymore unless you move into the mountains, become a hermit, live off the land and never make contact with humanity ever again. Even then you could be tracked using satallites. Some things could be good, most are bad. Think of it this way, identity theives use these technologies to steal you very Identity. The government employs some of the same technologies to catch these incidents, but mostly to ensure that the citizens of the government are in compliance with the common good. Number two: there will always be ways to stay on step ahead of the government when it comes to technology. Everyday a new device, search technique, software program, new communication method, ect. becomes available to use. The government can't keep track of all of it, but it is right on your heels, so be careful. The NSA began to use blackberries within two weeks, but still have no clue on some techs that have been out for a year or so. Just remember, you can let the government watch you and not attract attention to yourself, but you can prevent the government from watching you, short of full-scale rebellion.