Paper Instructions: The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate knowledge of key terms and concepts from the course materials and related readings. You will need to conduct additional research in other to answer the question(s) asked. The focus
UMBC | Data 605 | page 16of your paper is to concentrate on the ethical concerns. Time spent on any technical math or science concerns is to be kept to a minimum. Your answers must devote much of the paper to an examination of the ethical issues, theories and solutions. For this paper, you will write a paper of approximately 5 pages (approximately1,500 words, 12 point font, 1 inch margins and 1.5 line spacing) on the topic provided below related data science ethics. At least five (5) additional primary reference sources must be used and appropriately cited according to the APA style guide. Cites and quotes are necessary. Appropriate reference sources include case law, scholarly research papers, articles published in academic journals or government websites, but not personal webpages or Wikipedia. Traditional news articles may be used if necessary to provide appropriate context. Submission of this Assignment must be made by the date and time indicated above in either Word or PDF format. Failure to submit on time, or in an improper format will not be accepted. Topic With a growing number of cases involving the online exploitation of minors and victimization of vulnerable individuals, the State Police have decided to adopt several strategies to catch online predators. First, State Police officers have created fake profiles on many popular social media sites to look for bad actors. Second, the State Police have decided to employ several ethical hackers to access known social media forums, platforms and websites which have been proven to host inappropriate content and allow for the victimization of individuals. Third, the State Police has also asked for foreign intelligence services to access U.S. servers without judicial authorization to provide data in the search of online predators. Fourth, the State Police has hired a local university to have its graduate data science students build an artificial intelligence application to further help find online criminals using the data it has collected. Specifically, I will be looking for the following structure:(1) Introduction summarizing the topics to be addressed –an overview.(2) Discuss all four of the topics/scenarios (fake profiles, ethical hackers, foreign intelligence, local university) identified above, and analyze each topic as follows:
UMBC | Data 605 | page 17(a)What are the possible ethical issues related to the State Police strategies and the use of this data?(b)How would you apply each of the ethical theories covered in assessing the continued use of this data?(c) What improvements or ethical safeguards would you recommend?(3) Provide a conclusion summarize the sections and provide final thoughts and observation
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