Ethical Issues

Identifying Ethical Issues in our Software

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Ethical Concerns:

Are users' privacy expectations met by our software?

Yes, the only information we collect is phone number, secure through firebase

Users can delete their account

Inputting personal information like last name, university, etc is optional and not collected

GPS location is based strictly on a general city area ~30 mile radius, so no addresses or coordinate location is used. - Might switch to region based like (i.e. New England, SouthEast, midatlantic) and timezones

Nothing like social media is collected

Could the use of our software result in racial, gender, religious, or any other type of discrimination? How do we try and mitigate this problem within our software?

Match with who you want Geared towards gaming habits rather than personal identity

Slight discrimination for saftey: Option for filter only for the same gender ( completely optional)

Report feature --> Banned and only one phone number per account so if youre reported for some sort of Sexual Harrassment your account is linked to your phone number and youre banned - Strike system potentially

Algorithm --> saftey feature for less matching if

Block/unadd Feature

Can our software be abused by some users to cause harm to other users? To the public at large? How do we mitigate these problems?

Yes, our software has the potential for creepy people to do harmful things like Cyber stalking, cyber bullying, verbal abuse/harassment, sexual harassment

We have a multitude of options to address this. Firstly, you can limit it to a same gender to prevent this matching in the first place. Secondly, there are blocking and reporting options. Thirdly, you dont have to match with everyone so this solves most issues. Lastly, we can and will ban anyone that does any sort of action like this and we can save the data for a police report if needed.