Video #19 (Ethics)

Question 1

What are the 3 perspectives of GIS work?

Answer 1

1) Pragmatic
2) Critical/Theoretical
3) Legal

Question 2

What is the pragmatic perspective of GIS?

Answer 2

High ethical standards are expected under URISA’s code of ethics

Question 3

What is the critical-theoretical perspective?

Question 4

What is the legal perspective of GIS?

Answer 4

How was the data gathered? How should they be gathered? Who can access the data?

Question 5

What are the ethics, legal and privacy issues surrounding GIS?

Answer 5

Companies asking for your address, data about yourself could become public (census)

Question 6

With any new technology comes…

Answer 6

Privacy and ethical issues or questions

Question 7

What are some examples of ethical issues?

Answer 7

Surveillance, remote sensing of personal property

Question 8

In 1998, the EU passed a law that…

Answer 8

Prohibited data selling of customers information that they didn’t volunteer up. This includes internet cookies to magazine subscriptions

Question 9

What is the American companies argue in regards to data-selling?

Answer 9

It should be self-regulated

Question 10

Spatial technologies have been increasingly more acceptable in this US department

Answer 10

Justice (law enforcement)

Question 11

What is the issue regarding data acquisition in the USA?

Answer 11

The boundaries for privacy have moved and people have gradually allowed for more things about them to be exposed

Question 12

Tracking chips is an example of…

Answer 12

Geo-surveillance technology

Question 13

What is “Geo-Slavery”?

Answer 13

The inability to hide from surveillance

Question 14

Why are Smart-Grids controversial?

Answer 14

They track power usage which can be recorded, making private space less private

Question 15

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is when…

Answer 15

You choose what geographical information you display and allow to be used

Question 16

Google street view is…

Answer 16

Photo imagery capturing 360 degrees of horizontal rotation and 290 degrees of vertical rotation of pictures of streets.

Question 17

How do google street view cars capture photos?

Answer 17

Laser range scanners, 9 cameras and GPS units. All cars are also equipped with a wifi hotspot

Question 18

What countries don’t accept streetview and why?

Answer 18

Switzerland is one, and it’s because they weren’t properly obscuring peoples identities which violates their privacy laws

Question 19

What happened to street view in Canada?

Answer 19

In 2007, Canada declared it was not okay with street view for privacy reasons. In 2009, it became available for the olympics

Question 20

What are the implications of street view?

Answer 20

Street view can and document behavior and give context (Fights, smoking youth, man walking with a gun etc)

Question 21

How can street view be revealing?

Answer 21

People can be photographed beside their address, people can be shown going to certain places

Question 22

Power gets expressed through technologies such as street view through…

Answer 22

Important locations like the FBI building can restrict street view which means surveillance is being controlled

Question 23

Google maps lacks representation of…

Answer 23

Slums, which is a false representation

Question 24

What is a holodeck?

Answer 24

Virtual reality, a way to experience a different area without leaving your room

Question 25

What is panopticon?

Answer 25

Everything can be surveilled by a central power

Question 26

What is the origin of a panopticon?

Answer 26

A prison was designed to be surveilled