07.01 - Legal, Moral, Ethical, and Cultural Implications

Question 1

Legal

Answer 1

Relating to, or permissible by, law

Question 2

Morality

Answer 2

An understanding of the difference between right and wrong, often founded in personal beliefs

Question 3

Ethics

Answer 3

Moral principles governing an individual’s or organisation’s behaviour, such as a code of conduct

Question 4

Culture

Answer 4

The attitudes, values, and practices shared by a group of people/society

Question 5

Intellectual property rights

Answer 5

Rules governing an individual’s ownership of their own creations or ideas, prohibiting the copying of, for example, software without the owner’s permission

Question 6

Privacy

Answer 6

The right to keep personal information and data secret and for it to not to be unwillingly accessed or shared through, for example, hacking

Question 7

Plagiarism

Answer 7

The act of taking another person’s work and claiming it as one’s own

Question 8

BCS

Answer 8

British Computer Society

Question 9

IEEE

Answer 9

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Question 10

ACM

Answer 10

Association for Computing Machinery