01 Section 3 - Ethical and Cultural Issues Flashcards
What is an ethical issue?
Ethical issues are what would be considered right and wrong by society
What is a legal issue?
Legal issues are about what is actually right and wrong in the eyes of the law
What is a cultural issue?
Cultural issues are about how groups of people with particular beliefs, practices or languages may be affected (e.g. ethnic groups, religions. countries)
What is an environmental issue?
Environmental issues are about how we impact the natural world
What is a code of conduct?
Many companies have this, because if they acted legally but not ethically they would lose public trust
-it is a set of rules that the company and employees will follow
A company may invent its own or agree to a standard one
What are stakeholders?
Stakeholders are individuals or groups of people who have an interest in or are affected by a particular scenario
What are examples of stakeholders? (in terms of a computing setting)
- a companies owners
- companies employees
- the shop that sells the companies product
- customers
- the companies hardware suppliers
- the local community
What is the differences between groups of stakeholders?
-have different priorities which may conflict with those of others
Why is it hard to keep information private on the internet?
- Many websites and social media require users to input personal information to set up an account
- cloud computing allow users to save personal files to their surfaces
- companies may make your personal information available to other website users, they may sell your information
What is a privacy agreement?
An agreement made by a company which states what they can do with the information they hold about you
-users will accept a privacy agreement before using many websites and software, even without reading it in many cases, and users often have no choice but to agree or just not use the software
Why do companies sell your personal information?
personal details, buying habits, likes/dislikes are sold to other organisations so they can send you targeted adverts or spam emails
How can users make the information they share more private?
- changing their privacy settings
- but on the bottom line users have to trust companies to keep their data secure, although this doesn’t always happen
What is internet censorship?
When someone tries to control what other people can access on the internet
-some countries governments use censorship to restrict access to certain information
What is one of the strictest countries for censorship?
China
- they restrict access to websites which are critical of the government
- censors major foreign websites Facebook, Youtube and Twitter
Cuba
-people can only access the internet from government-controlled access points
What censorship does the UK use?
Most governments use some form of censorship
-the UK restricts access to pornography, gambling to protect children
What is computer surveillance?
When someone monitors what other people are accessing on the internet
Why do government intelligence agencies use computer surveillance?
Use packet sniffers to monitor internet traffic, looking out for certain key words and phrases that might alert them of illegal activities
-in some countries Internet Service Providers keep record of the websites visited by its customers
What does ISP stand for?
Internet Service Provider
Why do some people support internet surveillance and censorship?
- to protect children
- to stop terrorism
Why do some people not support internet surveillance and censorship?
several non-profit organisations campaign against what they call cyber censorship and mass surveillance
-invasion of privacy
What are the ethical and cultural issues of computers and the internet?
- hard to keep information private on the internet
- censorship and surveillance
- technology can impact our social well-being
- cyber bullying and trolling of social media
- using technology too much can cause health problems
- technology has shaped our culture
- technology is changing the way we do business
- unequal access to technology has caused a digital divide