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For this blog post, it is referenced from my final paper that regards to protect everybody's privacy by prohibiting drone use for registered sex offenders, felons, and people suffering from mental illness. People that are suffering from mental illness should not have the right to own drone due to the fact that their unpredictable from what occurs inside their mind and might directly physically act by the way of their thinking. People with mental illness tend to have abnormal and addictive behavior, which it’s a concern to allow them to operate a drone. The reason is that if people with mental illness use a drone to stalk someone and it becomes an addicting behavior, it can become an issue towards the victim and themselves since the person operating the drone has some unpredictable mix of emotions of whether it can become a greater problem from stalking into a further invasion of privacy case. Felons that have been convicted for stalking individuals and breaks a restraining order should not have the right to own a drone. When someone is known to be a convicted felon, it is difficult for society to accept them such as when they apply for jobs and trusting them. If a felon that was convicted for stalking and breaking a restraining order, the felon has to stay away from their victim and have no communication. As a result, it makes it impossible to allow felons to own drones since more likely felons will take advantage and use drones to continue to stalk people. The most important group of people that are a threat to society are registered sex offenders. Sex offenders are the kind of people that have no control of their wicked desires and will do anything to stalk for new victims. Sex offenders who are intent on committing further unlawful acts may use the vast capabilities of modern drone technology to target children. Sex offenders should be stripped from their rights to have possession of their drone due to possibly invading children’s privacy and their well-being. According to an academic journal, there is a case regarding an incident at North Carolina about a sex offender using a drone that was hovering around a crowd of fairgoers, which there were many children present and the police followed the drone and immediately arrested the sexual predator by the name of Matthew Kenning (Borden, 2017). Incidents like in Kenning’s case does raise concerns knowing that sex offenders are operating drones, which technology is being used as an advantage to spy on children. Parents do not want to worry about their children being monitored by sex offenders even when they’re not physically present. Sex offenders that own drones can easily monitor children in schools and on public park, which both places are supposed to be a safe environment and by the use of drones it is endangering children’s privacy. For more information click on this link.
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Owning a smartphone is a blessing for all of us. Our smartphones are like mini computers that we rely on if we are browsing the internet and downloading software. Most importantly, smartphones are like any other phone, we can call or text. Unfortunately, we are addicted to our smartphones that we cannot leave our home without them and are a constant distraction in our daily life. We witness people that are constantly distracted from starring at their phones while walking on the sidewalk, roads, and stairs. The most important issue is when people are texting while driving. Texting while driving is the act of composing, sending, reading text messages, email, or making similar use of the web on a mobile phone while operating a motor vehicle. Every day, I am always behind the wheel and I always see other drivers distracted on their phones while driving especially when the driver is at a stoplight. Texting and driving has been a major cause of car accidents and running over pedestrians. As I read in an article from Edgar Snyder and Associates, there were some shocking statistics from people that text and drive. Each year, approximately 1.6 million crashes occur due to cell phone use. Nearly 330,000 injuries occur each year are caused by texting and driving. One out of every four car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving. If a driver is texting on the road, in about 5 seconds the driver is not paying attention other than their phone. The National Safety Council reports that texting while driving causes a 400 percent increase in time spent with eyes off the road. I was astonished by the statistics that I found interesting and I did not know about. Those are only a few statistics for texting and driving, but there are many more statistics that we might be aware, but not properly presented. Texting and driving conflicts with the ethical issues of Utilitarianism, and Deontology. Driving distracted goes against Utilitarianism because texting and driving does not maximize the greatest good, considering it can kill innocent people. Deontology goes out the window because texting and driving has been declared illegal in nearly every state, while most states now even make it illegal to be on a phone at all. One might argue in opposition that texting and driving is a part of virtue ethics, because many other people text and drive. There is another ethical issue for punishing people that text and drive, which is considered as invasion of privacy. Now we hear about undercover officers disguised as construction workers going to stop lights and stop signs to find drivers using their phones. Undercover officers use cameras to take pictures of driver’s license plates and use it to look up the drivers place of residence in order to send the ticket to the driver’s home address. Drivers that had been in that situation argue that they feel their privacy is being violated from the cameras that can easily give their private information. Undercover officers pulling stings to stop distracted drivers is a good approach in my opinion because it can reduce possible car accidents.
Link for more information for statistics of the dangers of texting and driving http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/08/dangers-of-texting-and-driving-statistics_n_7537710.html |
Fernando MadrigalHello, my name is Fernando Madrigal and I am a Junior at CSUMB. My major is Computer Science with my concentration in Network and Security. I recently transferred from Hartnell Community College last fall. Archives
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