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In the former case, ethics of such things as Computer Security and Computer Virus es asks whether the very act of innovation is an ethically right or wrong act. Similarly, does a scientist have an ethical obligation to produce or fail to produce a Nuclear Weapon ? What are the ethical questions surrounding the production of technologies that waste or conserve energy and resources? What are the ethical questions surrounding the production of new manufacturing processes that might inhibit employment, or might inflict suffering in the Third World ? In the latter case, the ethics of technology quickly break down into the ethics of various human endeavors as they are altered by new technologies. For example, Bioethics is now largely consumed with questions that have been exacerbated by the new life-preserving technologies, new Cloning technologies, and new technologies for implantation. In Law , the right of Privacy is being continually attenuated by the emergence of new forms of surveillance and anonymity. The old ethical questions of privacy and free speech are given new shape and urgency in an Internet age. Such tracing devices as RFID , Biometric analysis and identification, Genetic Screening , all take old ethical questions and amplify their import. SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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