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COMMENTS:	GREAT STYLE; YOUR IN-DEPTH LOOK AT THE SESSION IS VERY REFRESHING 



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| 		Report file for COMP2800 Session 4, 2002
|      Dr Roger Clarke, Ethical and Social Aspects of IT, May 17
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| * name		: <suppressed>
| * student number: <suppressed>
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| 0. FEEDBACK  (after the`:', please enter an integer from 0 to 5;
| 	     `0' = strongly disagree, `5' = strongly agree)
| 
| * Q1. Generally, I understood the material presented.	: 5
| * Q2. I found the Session interesting.			: 3
| * Q3. I think the Session was potentially valuable.	: 3
| 
| * Q4. Please enter any other comments relevant for feedback below:
| 
| I found the seminar very one-sided.  Roger Clarke would talk about
| government agencies making stupid decisions, but he didn't say why
| they made the stupid decisions.  Contrary to popular belief, a lot of
| work goes on in the public service, and decisions aren't made without
| research and weighing up of the options.  There has to be some reason,
| no matter how miss-guided, as to why certain decisions are made.  He
| also used his own opinion to back up the points that he made and
| didn't credit it with references to other professionals and articles.
| So no matter how true the points that he was talking about are, I do
| not think we should be expected to take heed to what he said.  To
| argue a point, one needs more than ones own experience and opinion to
| back their claims.
| 

VERY INTERESTING POINTS

| 1. SUMMARY OF THE SESSION (200-300 words; summary of the most salient
| 		or interesting  points; eg. what are the principles,
| 		issues and some of the specific challenges involved)
|  
| The seminar on Ethical and Social Aspects of IT presented by Roger
| Clarke was about his experience in the IT industry and his opinions on
| how to correctly go about designing systems.  He used many examples
| from around the world and within Australia of systems that have been
| installed or will be installed that do not adequately address the
| problems they are installed to solve.
| 
| The point that Roger pushed most strongly was that when designing
| systems, the wider implications of that system must be taken very
| seriously.  A system that solves some problems but introduces others
| is not an adequate solution to the original problem.  The prominent
| example that Roger used to show this was privacy and anonymity.
| 
| There are many people in this world that do not want their location to
| be known all the time.  These are people that have something to hide,
| and one of the biggest groups of these are criminals.  Of course, in
| this situation, it would be great for their location to be known all
| the time.  However, other people; including people under witness
| protection, abused women, and politicians and celebrities that do not
| want to be harassed by the media, don not want people to know where they
| are and have a very good reason not to.  So tagging cars to charge for
| CBD road usage, or using the GPS to track mobile phones is not an
| adequate solution to problems such as too many people using CBD roads
| and tracking stolen phones.
| 
| Another issue that is prominent in the world today is skipping the
| offer and accept model of a transaction.  When people make a
| transaction, they need to know what they are buying and how much they
| are paying, and then accept that by, for example, pressing a button.
| This presents issues in automatic road tolls and automatic public
| transport systems, where a car just needs to go past a checkpoint or
| card swiped near a machine, and the very act of swiping it means the
| transaction is accepted.  No indication is given to the customer of
| what they are buying and how much it is, and so the potential for
| error and confusion is very high.
| 
| If there is one thing that should be learnt from Roger Clarke's
| session, it is that when designing software systems, the implications
| of the broader situation need to be taken into careful consideration.
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