You must choose of the following scenarios and investigate ethical and legal considerations for your chosen scenario. All the scenarios are based in the European
Union.
Your team’s role in all scenarios is as a consultancy firm focussed on ethical and legal risk. You are being contracted to identify ethical and legal issues that may
arise from the hiring company’s work. They want to know from you where there are ethical and legal issues they may need to consider and what you recommend they do
about them.
In order to do this work, you will need to focus on your choice of scenario as presented to identify ethical and legal issues that relate directly to them. In
addition, you will also need to extrapolate from your chosen scenario to identify potential ethical and legal risks.
You are expected to refer to relevant areas of legislation (for example, data protection, cybercrime, disability legislation) that apply and provide examples of laws
that may apply (note: you are not expected to state whether or not the laws actually do apply).
You are also required to create guidance about the ethical risks and remedies. You should refer to relevant frameworks, codes of conduct and examples of similar cases
where relevant.
A small charity has produced an app that lets people report instances of woodland and rivers that need to be cleared of litter and rubbish. Once reported, volunteers
who live or work nearby can be allocated to clean up the area using the app. The app was built at a Hackathon using existing code from repos on GitHub and has been
made available to users via Apple’s app store and Google’s playstore.
It is intended that the charity can use the app to support potential volunteers to more easily get involved on an ad-hoc basis and to potentially join the charity as
regular volunteers.
Given the potential benefits of the app to help the charity make the most out of their limited resources, they are keen to roll it out as quickly and widely as
possible.
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