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Inspired by an effort in Los Angeles, a Canadian city has installed internet-connected light poles in an effort to reduce electricity use and help the environment. The poles are also equipped with microphones that record gunshot sounds as part of a policing effort (a technology called ShotSpotter tries to guide law enforcement agencies and to help them deploy their officers more effectively). The city has also asked private homeowners who install security cameras to sign on to a registry, so that police would be able to contact them quickly and request video footage for investigations in which that footage might provide evidence. The city's police department also uses automated license plate readers.

The city is now seeking a product that would allow them to bring together the data collected by the sensors and microphones on the light poles and the data collected by the automated license plate readers, in order to have the resulting information ready to be used in combination with video collected from private security cameras in the course of law enforcement investigations.

Should your company/team contract with the city to create such a product?

Team A will take the position that yes you should take the contract and Team B will take the side that no it will not. In preparing your responses, consider the following:

1. In this project, what moral values are potentially conflicting with each other? Is there any way to reconcile them? Even if a conflict is unavoidable, are there ways to respect all relevant interests/values? How?

2. As a project team, how might you go about sorting through these ethical issues and addressing them? Which of the ethical issues you have identified would you prioritize, and why?