7.1 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 belief

Question 3

Ethics

Answer 3

moral principles governing an individual’s or organisation’s behavior, such as a code of conduct

Question 4

Culture

Answer 4

the attitudes, values and practices shared by a group of people or 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 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 Computer Machinery