Answer the Following in a Sequential way
a. Does email save time? (Marks-1)
b. Computing technology has had a huge impact on farming. Research a farming application and write a short note on it.(Marks-1.5)
c. How can we evaluate the NSA’s programs of massive collection of communications? How should we react when powerful government agencies break laws that protect pri- vacy of
communications? (Marks-1.5)
d. Explain the difference between opt-in and opt-out policies for secondary uses of personal information. (Marks-1)
e. A company in the Netherlands that makes navigation devices collects location data from the devices to provide real-time services to its customers. It also provides anonymous statistical data to government agencies to improve roads and traffic flow. Unknown to the company and its customers, the police used the data to choose sites for traffic cameras to catch speeders.
Was this a privacy violation? Why or why not? (Marks-2)
f. Briefly explain the differences between common carriers, broadcasters, and publishers with respect to freedom of speech and control of content. (Marks-1)
g. What is one way of reducing spam? (Marks-1)
h. What are two of Kant’s important ideas about ethics? (Marks-2)
i. What is the difference between act utilitarianism and ethical egoism? (Marks-2) j. Which kind of ethical theory, deontologist or consequentialist, works better for arguing that it is
wrong to drive one’s car on the left side of a road in a country where people normally drive on the right? Explain. (Marks-2)