Part A for Ipod Nano

The student explains an appropriate social and/or ethical issue related to an IT system.

The new Apple IPod Nano raises some ethical questions because it has a camera built into it. The news piece from fitnessbusinesspro.com was published on September 22, 2009, and the article rises on question that is associated with the video camera that is on the new IPod Nano. The camera being built into the iPod is a positive feature in most circumstances because it will allow you to document any activity no matter where you are if you have a camera with you or not. But the negative impact is that in most health clubs they do not want cell phones in the changing rooms because one can take pictures of someone else changing. Now this will happen with iPods and it won’t be pictures, it will be videos. The video camera has 640x480 resolution, in a comparison video with the flip camera; the flip camera had much better picture. But just because the quality of the video is not good that does not solve the problem because people can still bring the camera into health clubs and take videos of people changing.