the opportunities, so that the technology is beneficial for or, at least, does minimal to no harm to the interests of lifeloggers and non-lifeloggers. The inquiry is restricted in eight important ways. 1) The moral challenges and opportunities manifest at three different stages: research and development, trials, and use. The analysis at hand focuses on challenges and opportunities that occur when lifelog technology is available and used as an end-product. 2) Lifelog technology can be used by different agents: private individuals, public institutions, government agencies, and corporations could deploy lifelog technology. This study is concentrated upon lifelog technology that is purchased or installed by members of the general public. 3) Lifelog technology can be used for different purposes. In this study, the use of lifelogs for private purposes by members of the general public is discussed. As shown later (2.3.2 and lifelog technology can also be deployed in professional or Purposes 2.3.3 Users), medical settings, so that a better insight into the behaviour of employees or patients is obtained. 4) Even more specifically, when lifelog technology is made available to members of the general public, the moral challenges and opportunities manifest at three stages: (1) when a non-lifelogger becomes a lifelogger; (2) when lifelogs are being used; (3) and when a lifelogger quits being a lifelogger. This study focuses on the first two. 5) Lifelogs are currently only at a rudimentary stage of development, leaving room for a broad spectrum of contingencies concerning their future functioning. Therefore, a plausible future scenario is used to delimit ethical research and illustrate ethical concerns. Since the technology is still at an early stage of development, a future scenario is generally an acceptable way to contextualise the ethical analysis and identify normative issues (Wright et al. 2008). The scenario is not intended to be an accurate prediction of the future. Instead it provides one of many future possibilities, which can be used to discuss the potential merits and demerits of the technology. Even though the scenario is fictional, the plausibility of the scenario will be substantiated by referring to current research findings. 6) This research focuses on three key sets of issues, namely issues with respect to privacy, autonomy, and beneficence, when discussing the moral challenges and opportunities
the opportunities, so that the technology is beneficial for or, at least, does minimal to no harm to the interests of lifeloggers and non-lifeloggers. The inquiry is restricted in eight important ways. 1) The moral challenges and opportunities manifest at three different stages: research and development, trials, and use. The analysis at hand focuses on challenges and opportunities that occur when lifelog technology is available and used as an end-product. 2) Lifelog technology can be used by different agents: private individuals, public institutions, government agencies, and corporations could deploy lifelog technology. This study is concentrated upon lifelog technology that is purchased or installed by members of the general public. 3) Lifelog technology can be used for different purposes. In this study, the use of lifelogs for private purposes by members of the general public is discussed. As shown later (2.3.2 Purposes and 2.3.3 Users), lifelog technology can also be deployed in professional or medical settings, so that a better insight into the behaviour of employees or patients is obtained. 4) Even more specifically, when lifelog technology is made available to members of the general public, the moral challenges and opportunities manifest at three stages: (1) when a non-lifelogger becomes a lifelogger; (2) when lifelogs are being used; (3) and when a lifelogger quits being a lifelogger. This study focuses on the first two. 5) Lifelogs are currently only at a rudimentary stage of development, leaving room for a broad spectrum of contingencies concerning their future functioning. Therefore, a plausible future scenario is used to delimit ethical research and illustrate ethical concerns. Since the technology is still at an early stage of development, a future scenario is generally an acceptable way to contextualise the ethical analysis and identify normative issues (Wright et al. 2008). The scenario is not intended to be an accurate prediction of the future. Instead it provides one of many future possibilities, which can be used to discuss the potential merits and demerits of the technology. Even though the scenario is fictional, the plausibility of the scenario will be substantiated by referring to current research findings. 6) This research focuses on three key sets of issues, namely issues with respect to privacy, autonomy, and beneficence, when discussing the moral challenges and opportunities
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