Movie - Minority Report and its ethical issues

We are watching the movie “Minority Report”. There are a lot of ethical issues concerning technologies we can find in this movie. The biggest ethical issue with this movie is how pre-crime branch of government is prosecuting general public before they even commit any crime. These people that are arrested end up directly in some high-tech jail without any trial.
Another ethical issue I see is with how the pre-cogs are being treated. Pre-cogs are genetically created human clones and are kept in a controlled environment and they do not have normal interactions with other human beings. Neither do they have any social life like everybody else. To me it seems like they are treated like lab animals.
Pre-crime also seems to be hiding the facts about some errors it made in arresting innocent civilians just so that the people can think the system is working without any error and ultimately the founders make the big profit.

Class activities in April 2010 with guest speakers

In the month of April we discussed Ethics in IT and Societal Impacts. Our instructor invited a few guests to come to our class and discuss different ethical issues with IT and talk about technology in general.

One guest was a lawyer in capitol hill who discussed the ethical issues with Facebook, cell phones and also Google technologies. We talked about how Google is planning to scan all the books that were ever published and how it might raise the concerns about copy right violations. We also talked about piracy of MP3 music and other medias.

Another guest came from a IT think tank group. He made a presentation on the importance of IT and technologies.