Ethical, legal and environmental impacts of digital technology - OCR Flashcards
What is an ethics
Moral principles that governs one’s behaviour
Give Ethical issues in computing
Ensuring public safety
Security of data
How is Ensuring public safety a ethical concern
As new technology is introduced they bring safety concerns like driver-less cars how will they decide who to live the pedestrians or the passangers
how is data security a ethical concern
Once data is put in a computer it is easy to transmit.By bringing in the use of computers and collecting data it is making illegal obtaining of personal data easier making those who care about privacy more concerned
Give legal issues computers bring
Allowing someone to illegally share personal data
helping steal financial data like card numbers
helping to illegally copy/distribute films/music/shows
Extorting Data illegally or blackmailing someone
Give laws in the UK to protect against crimes and what they do
Data protection Act 1998/2018 - governs protection of Personal Data
Computer misuse Act 1990 - defines and criminalises computer offences
Copyright,designs and patents Act- Gives author control of the way the published material is used
Creative Commons Licensing - allows free sharing and distributions of a product
Freedom of information Act- gives public the right to access information recorded by pubic sector organisations
Give an example of Cultural issue on the use of tech
The digital divide - Those who are comfortable using tech against those who are and those who can afford it against those who cannot
Changing nature of employment - Machines are taking the jobs of lower skilled workers like stacking shelves but open higher skilled jobs for maintaining the machine
Why do computers bring in Environmental issues
They are made from materials that are hard to recycle or they are toxic such as lead and people get new phones every few years and the phones have no where to go. Furthermore datacenters and Web servers require a lot of energy to run/electric to be used causing more fossil fuels to be burned
What law in 2016 allowed The police to search web history and emails violating privacy
Investigatory powers Act
Difference between Data protection act 1998 and 2018
Users need to know what data is being stored and where it is being stored
What does the Computer Misuse act 1990 Ban
Illegal to Access data without permission
Illegal to Access data that will be used to commit a crime such as blackmailing
Illegal to to make changes to data you do not have permission to
What are the situations where it is permissible to use copyright material
When you are the Copyright Holder
When you Have the copyrighted Holders permission
When Copyright holder has given up their copyright
What Is Open Source Software and give advantages+disadvantages
It is free And free from copyright
Advantages:
Free,Can be modified so suit needs,many authors to improve it.
Disadvantages:
may be buggy,Support may not be readily available
What is Propriety software and give examples
It is copyrighted only obtainable by Licence
Advantages:
Free from bugs/patched, Help can be sought by organisation software is provided by,support available
Disadvantages:
Costly,cannot be modified to suit needs of the user Usually Limited to one computer
