Unit 5 - Impact Of Digital Technology✔️ Flashcards
Ethical concerns with facial recognition?
-uses personal biometric data - people havent consented
-may alter public behaviour
-more likley to misidentify children and people of different races
What are 2 advantages of facial recognition?
- criminals wanted by court/or police can be found
- help deter and prevent crime
What 3 jobs can robots do?
- building devices/electronics - manufacturing
- cleaning
- peforming operations in hospitals
Uses of computers in healthcare?
- 300,000 healthcare apps for smartphones
- by 2020 50% of users downloaded health app
- wearable technology offers health monitoring
Examples of wearable technology?
-body mounted sensors
-fitness trackers
-hearing aids
Why might the goverment need citzens private data?
Goverment and security services need citzens private data to keep citzens safe from terrorism and other attacks
What 4 raw materials are found in the hard disk?
- aluminium
- steel
- fibreglass
- plastic
What 3 raw materials are found in gaming controllers?
- plastic
- rubber
- lithium
What raw materials are found in the cables?
- copper
- plastic
What 3 raw materials are found in the cpu?
- fibreglass
- aluminium
- gold
What raw material is found in the heat sink?
- aluminium
What raw materials are found in the ram?
- fibreglass
- gold
What raw materials are found in the motherboard?
- copper
- plastic
- fibreglass
- steel
- lithium
- aluminium
How is environmental damage caused from producing technology and e-waste?
-gas and coal are needed to power factories - diesel needed to transport raw materials,parts and products
-lithium batteries can catch fire
-pollution from e-waste and can affect the enviorment
What is the issue with materials used in technology?
Most are non-renewable and expensive - dangerous to the enviorment if not recycled properly
What is fairphone?
Fairphone launched in 2013 - modular phone designed so users can replace parts - creates less waste uses responsibly sourced materials
Impacts from mining materials for technology?
-mining raw materials lead to contamination and erosion - plastic damages the enviorment
What are ways to reduce the impact of e-waste?
-make devices that can be upgraded with modular components
-use removable batteries
-use modern recycling facilities
Issues with autonomous vehicles (self driving cars) ?
-social acceptability - society will not want possibily dangerous cars on the road that cause accidents
-risk of them malfunctioning
What is data protection?
Data protection is about looking after the personal data of people
What are 3 things that organisation which collect data must do?
-only collect data for a specific purpose
-make sure the data is accurate
-data that is not necessary for the specific purpose may not be collected
What are 5 data collection sources?
-3rd parties - other companys can sell or share data
-cookies track users as they browse websites
-paper registration forms
-CCTV
-viewing habits with streaming services
What are 6 reasons for lawful data processing?
-consent
-legal obligation
-contral
-public task
-vital intrests
-legitimate intrests
Example and meaning of consent?
Example:tick box to consent to recieve a newsletter
Meaning:person has agreed to their data being used
Example and meaning of contract?
Example:a contract for buying a house
Meaning:processing is needed for a contract
Example and meaning of legal obligation?
Example:keeping tax records
Meaning:processing data is needed to meet the law
Example and meaning of vital intrests?
Example:teachers gives an injured students name to the paramedic
Meaning:processing is needed to protect somones life
Example and meaning of public task?
Example:a criminal court
Meaning:for perfoming an official task
Example and meaning of legitimate intrests?
Example:processing customer data
Meaning:there is clear benefit to the user or company
How must data be stored?
-data must be kept accurate and up to data
-it is not kept any longer the necessary
-it must not be transferred to other countries unless they can keep it protected
-customers must be told of a data breach 72 hours after it happens
Give 2 methods personal data can be stored?
-using paswords for any system with access to the data
-encrypting the data
Give 2 ways extremley sensetive data can be stored?
-CCTV
-securit guards
-two-factor authentication
Penalties from the data protection act?
-issuing warnings to the organisation
-order organisation to comply
More serious - fines eg 20 million
What are cookies?
Cookies are sent to a users computer from web sites and allow the website to store data such as contents of your shopping basket , track you , target advertising at you
What is unauthorised access?
Unauthorised access is where a person gains access to a computer system without permission eg a hacker who gains permission to a system they shouldnt be using
What is unauthorised modification?
Affecting/gaining access to a system without permision and altering its cocntents eg deletig their files or rewriting programs to removed activation keys
What are some ways of preventing copyright?
-license keys,activation keys and serial numbers
-physical products to show they are genuine
-online registration or activation
What are lots of companies moving to software in the cloud?
-very hard to copy as the software is accessibke only withing the companies servers
-user views the ouput of the software through their web browser
What is software license?
Software is protected from copyright as the user must have purchased the software before it can be used and normally has condiions such as the user wont be able to sell it
What is propretary software?
Peoprietary software is the most commonly used software by the genreal public today
What are some commone features of proprietary software?
-source code kept by developers - users given a compiled program
-software can not be adapted or modified by user
-software can only be used if user purchases a licence
What is open software
Open source software provides access to the source code that was used to create it - users can develop and modify it
Features of open source code
-Open source software is often developed collaboratively by many programmer
-other companies may give up time to improve the software
Penalties for copyright?
-Fines
-Prison time
The computer misuse Act (1990) Open source software is often developed collaboratively by many programmercreated following offences?
• Unauthorised access to computer material
• Unauthorised access with intent to commit or facilitate a crime
• Unauthorised modification of software or data
• Making, supplying or obtaining anything which can be used in computer misuse offences
Punsihment for breaking computer misuse Act (1990) ?
-fine
-10 years in prison
Data protection act in 2018?
In 2018 Eu data protection regulation implemented
