Ch. 2: Additional Exercise 6

Contrasting the Quality of Two Ethics Sites

Find two websites dealing with ethical issues related to the use of computers, such as privacy or the digital divide (the increasing gap between poor children who don’t have access to computing at home and other children who do). A good place to start your search is the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science. Evaluate each site in terms of the following questions:

Write a 500-word memo to your instructor presenting your findings. (See Chapter 9 for a discussion of memos.) Attach printouts of relevant and representative sections from each site.