CS103F: Ethical Foundations of Computer Science

For this blog post, please consider Amazon's labor practices, which have long been criticized for both its blue collar and white collar workers. In particular, it has been found that 10% of Amazon factory workers in Ohio are on food stamps, and recently Amazon patented a bracelet to track its employees as they work. These resources may be useful to you, though you should consider other, more recent sources, too:

• Green, Dennis. A new study found that 700 Amazon employees in Ohio are on food stamps. Business Insider, January 15, 2018.
• Yeginsu, Ceylan. If Workers Slack Off, the Wristband Will Know. The New York Times, February, 1, 2018.

• Is Amazon exhibiting ethical leadership?
• What are Amazon's obligations to its employees, in particular with respect to its factory workers?
• Given that Amazon is often the recipient of business subsidies and tax-break incentives, what are its responsibilities to the local community and its economy?
• What pieces of our society enable Amazon? Might (or even should) that change?
• What is technology's role here? Is it helpful, harmful, or neutral?

Please keep your post to approximately 300 words.

We do expect professional presentation: your spelling and grammar should be correct---you should not be using text shorthand or emojis.

Once you have created your blog post, submit a URL to the relevant assignment on Canvas. When you submit your URL, Canvas will take a snapshot of that URL, so be sure to submit once you are finished with your blog post.

Finally, The Ethics Centre has blog posts that may be useful as examples--they are often longer than your requirement, though. One of the recent good examples is "Why Victims Remain Silent... and Then Find Their Voice".