Colin Manning Munster Technological University

We held a meeting about the essay

He had three debates. 0930-1100

We held or first of four debates using MS Teams.

Posted two videos to YouTube play list

Posted three videos to YouTube play list

We had a quick meeting with the students who were able to attend to discuss options for assessment and to test the technology.

I have posted linked to resources on Canvas. I have added classes to the YouTube playlist I use for this class.

We watched a documentary about Facebook content moderation policies and the work of moderators at CPL in Dublin. Afterward we had an in...

We continued our look at the GDPR. We spent a lot of time discussing the right to be forgotten.

We watched the Nosedive episode of Black Mirror. We discussed some of the issues it raised. We watched a video bout the Social...

We continued our trawl through the interesting parts of the GDPR

This was an extra class. But only one student turned up so I called it off.

We watched the Arkangel episode of Black Mirror. We discussed a number of issues raised in the episodes: the con flight between child pro...

We discussed the DDR and how people in different countries can have different levels of sensitivity to potential abuses of surveillance tech...

We watched Das Leben Der Anderen (The Lives of Others). This movie depicts life in the final years of the DDR (East Germany).  We will d...

We looked at data protection principles very briefly. We will look at data protection again. We looked at the sources of law in Ireland. I...

We looked some more at privacy and discussed whether we value yo it for its intrinsic or extrinsic properties.  We settled on extrinsic. W...

We discussed codes of ethics some more and talked about the computer profession's obligations to society at large. We discussed whistl...

Students got into small groups and each was given a professional ethical problem to resolve. We discussed the possible solutions. I was su...

We looked at the Professional Codes of Conduct for the IEEE, ACM, and ICS. Students broke into groups and examined one of the case studies...