This week, I spent the first half working mostly on the ethics assignment. However, due to illness related difficulties, I was unable to make it to the ethics lecture on Wednesday. From the rundown I got from my groupmates, I was able to agree with their proposed ethical concerns on our project, which was mostly centered around the user’s privacy as well as potential use cases that are outside of our planned use-case scenarios. This would include having a person with ill intent planning to use the number of students in the UC for non-intended purposes. Users also cannot opt out of having their occupancy tracked, even if it’s anonymous.
I also made advancements with developing with Django. Currently, I have the web app set up on my local machine with skeletal code, using a python virtual environment.