There are three case studies provided and you are required to analyse and provide answers to the questions outlined below. You can use lecture material and literature to support yourr esponses.
1.0 Case Study–Prevention betterthanlitigation? Monitoring of employee computer use:
1.1 Isit ethical for organisationsto monitor employeesto detect accessto pornographyand then sack themifthey have accessed it?Discuss.
1.2 Giving consideration to yourresponse to 1.1, present anAnalyticalsolution that can avoid the ethical and privacy issuesraisedwhile helping the organisation achieve whattheywant to.For your specific solution,discuss the ethical andprivacy concernsthatmayariseand how they are dealt with.
2.0 Case Study – The Ethics of Classification:
2.1 Do you think that using attributessuch as weight, chronic illness andmaritalstatusisethical in thisspecific case study? Why or why not.
Giving consideration to 2.1, what attributes will you consider in your classification modelto achieve the same outcome forthe hospital?
2.3 Istherea better alternative to 2.2’s classification model in your viewasa datascientist? If so, discussyoursolutiontohelpachievethehospital’sdesiredoutcome(s)
2.4 In the context of 2.3,discuss the measures that the hospitalcantaketoprotecttheir patients’ data frombeing used unethically?
3.0 Case Study – Privacy and security breaches atAcxiom:
3.1 What could Acxiom do to increase the security and privacyof its customers’data?
3.2 Basedon the article cited in this case study and your own research,do youthink the governmentshould have accessto private-sectordata?
3.3 In addition to government, what organisations might need accessto private data forsecurity reasons?