Ethics and Legal Environment Technology Essay Paper

1. Life insurance companies are experimenting with analysis of consumer profiles to determine whether a person eats healthy food, exercises, smokes or drinks too much, has high risk hobbies, and so on, to estimate life expectancy. Companies might use the analysis to find population to market policies to. From the perspective of privacy, what are some of the key ethical or social issues raised?
2. Choose any smartphone app that includes a privacy statement or policy. Summarize and evaluate the policy. Can you think of any important things that are missing? What, if any of the policy seems intrusive?
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