Ethical, Legal, Environmental Issues

Question 1

Ethical Issues

Answer 1

Privacy - to what extent do we have a right to privacy (often trade off between security and privacy)
Inclusivity - to what extent does computing marginalise people (elderly can’t adapt to change, developing countries might get left behind)
Professionalism - does computing work in work context? lack of training/ standards can cause mass unemployment as computers take jobs. Plagiarism, theft of code

Question 2

Environmental issues

Answer 2

Health - mental + physical. tech can make huge difference to health. social media not healthy fo r physical health

energy: electricity and non renewable recourses

Resources: finite resources used in technology in trace amounts, hard to extract as used in trace amounts

Question 3

Cultural

Answer 3

Social media, spreading information, influence opinion

Question 4

Cyber security

Answer 4

illegal to make unauthorised changes to computer material to commit further crimes (blackmail) or to impair computers operation (virus)

Question 5

Intellectual property

Answer 5

Potected with patents and copy rights

Question 6

Patent

Answer 6

legal document, stops other people from making or using their invention. Software usually can’t be patented

Question 7

Copyright

Answer 7

legal ownership, about permission

Question 8

software license

Answer 8

shows that you have permission to use the software

Question 9

proprietary software

Answer 9

licensed under strict conditions. user cannot modify or distribute as source code is not available, has already been translated

Question 10

Open source software

Answer 10

license allows user to study, modify, or distribute