6.5 - Consequences Of Using Computing

Question 1

What are moral issues? Example?

Answer 1

The issues with the potential to help or harm others or oneself that conflict with an individuals own principles of right and wrong
Ex: some people happily download and use paid software without purchasing a license while others don’t feel that practice is morally correct

Question 2

What are ethical issues? Example?

Answer 2

The issues conflicting with the principles by which a society functions
Ex: the use and misuse of personal data, society generally believes personal data should be stored securely and not used for anything other than the purpose for which it was collected

Question 3

What are cultural issues? Example?

Answer 3

The issues conflicting with the principles, customs or social behaviour of people belonging to a particular segment of society
Ex: in the UK people are generally happy for photographs containing them to be taken in public and shared online but in other countries this would not be seen as acceptable

Question 4

What are legal issues? Examples?

Answer 4

Those that relate to the law
Ex:
- Computer Misuse Act 1990
- Data Protection Act 1998
- Freedom of Information Act 2000
- General Data Protection Regulation 2016

Question 5

What factors must computer scientists consider when creating a new computer system?

Answer 5

• where their system is going to be used
• what people’s attitudes towards it would be

Question 6

What challenges may lawmakers face in the digital age?

Answer 6

Enforcing copyright has been made difficult with the growth of the internet
- individuals are difficult to trace online
- international online services have to be made to comply with laws for all the companies they operate in

Question 7

What is the code of conduct?

Answer 7

A set of rules that individuals of an organisation voluntarily follow in their day to day work and behaviour

Question 8

What is copyright?

Answer 8

An exclusive and assignable right of legal ownership given to the creator of a piece of content

Question 9

What is data misuse?

Answer 9

The unauthorised or unlawful use of data

Question 10

What is personal data?

Answer 10

Any information related to an identifiable person

Question 11

What is unauthorised access?

Answer 11

The use of data, networks, applications or any computer systems without permission or for unintended purposes

Question 12

What are negative aspects of social media?

Answer 12

• internet trolling
• cyberbullying
• anonymous blogs
• hate sites