Cultural, Environmenal Impact Flashcards
What is the purpose of the data protection act?
To ensure that the data is not freely accessible to people who are not the rightful owners of the software.
What is the problem with the data protection act?
• it makes such media or software not accessible to everyone
• a lot of people will have to go to court for legal consequences
• piracy can also lead to a downfall in economic growth because of revenue losses and this can also lead to more employees leaving their jobs
What does the data protection act make illegal?
• distributing the software to other people
• copying media or software without owners’ knowledge or consent
• illegally using the software without paying for it or any actual rights to it
Steps developers can take to protect their software
• use a license key to activate their software
• increasing online verification
• encryption
• digital watermarks
Legal and ethical issues with a website which allows students to see and access each others files
• legal issue is students can plagiarise other peoples’ work
• legal issue is spread or risk of malware
• third legal issue is this can violate the data protection act
• ethical issue other students could access and read other students’ documents without consent
• second issue is hackers can do anything with these documenrs
• third ethical issue is these documents being easy to access is an invasion of privacy
Cultural and ethical issues of GPS tracking on children
Cultural = • parents embarassing you
• parents monitoring you for safety
• grandparents making their location susceptible to hackers
Ethical issues = • illegal if its without childrens’ consent/knowledge
• if the device gets hacked it can be tracked
• effective use of technolovy
Whats the digital divide?
The difference between those who have and do not hold any access to technology and comprises of
• internet connection speed
• mobile phone signal
• 4G signal for mobile internet
What else is the digital divide
A separation between other communities such as
• elderly
• people in poverty
What is planned obscenence?
The idea of intentionally creating a brand new product that quickly becomes out of date and needs to be replaced
3 ways that computers can design products with planned obscence
• unreliable parts product fails within a set tome frame so customers must pay to replace
• software by coding a program into not functioning after a planned date or testing a software upgrade not compatible with the outdated hardware
• marketing such as useless strategies persuading customers to make a useless purchase and discard their outdated model.
Cultural impacts of planned obscenence
• pressure to buy new products
• less efficient in their work
• people lose trust in big companies
• more people will be better consumers
Arguements for and and against of social media removing content
For = • prevents sharing of software and music
• prevents cyberbullying
• removes hate speech and content not suitable for kids
Against = • content not available for everyone
• invasion of privacy
• no freedom of speech
• businesses impacted
What are the 3 parts to Computer misuse actㅍ
- Illegal to access data unless u have permissions
- Illegal to access data when material will be used to commit illegal activity (blackmail)fraud)
- Illegal to make changes to any data when you dont have permission. Installing malware.
Whats copyright
A legal means of a content creator protecting what they create
Ethical issues
• comp components hard to recycle or contain toxic material
• ppl have new smartphones eevry couple years
•. Ppl replacing older tech cuz it looks outdated
• lithoum ipn batteries are bad cuz they can explode when taking them out and cause fires
