Unit 5 - Impact Of Digital Technology✔️

Question 1

Ethical concerns with facial recognition?

Answer 1

-uses personal biometric data - people havent consented

-may alter public behaviour

-more likley to misidentify children and people of different races

Question 2

What are 2 advantages of facial recognition?

Answer 2

• criminals wanted by court/or police can be found
• help deter and prevent crime

Question 3

What 3 jobs can robots do?

Answer 3

• building devices/electronics - manufacturing
• cleaning
• peforming operations in hospitals

Question 4

Uses of computers in healthcare?

Answer 4

• 300,000 healthcare apps for smartphones
• by 2020 50% of users downloaded health app
• wearable technology offers health monitoring

Question 5

Examples of wearable technology?

Answer 5

-body mounted sensors
-fitness trackers
-hearing aids

Question 6

Why might the goverment need citzens private data?

Answer 6

Goverment and security services need citzens private data to keep citzens safe from terrorism and other attacks

Question 7

What 4 raw materials are found in the hard disk?

Answer 7

• aluminium
• steel
• fibreglass
• plastic

Question 8

What 3 raw materials are found in gaming controllers?

Answer 8

• plastic
• rubber
• lithium

Question 9

What raw materials are found in the cables?

Answer 9

• copper
• plastic

Question 10

What 3 raw materials are found in the cpu?

Answer 10

• fibreglass
• aluminium
• gold

Question 11

What raw material is found in the heat sink?

Answer 11

• aluminium

Question 12

What raw materials are found in the ram?

Answer 12

• fibreglass
• gold

Question 13

What raw materials are found in the motherboard?

Answer 13

• copper
• plastic
• fibreglass
• steel
• lithium
• aluminium

Question 14

How is environmental damage caused from producing technology and e-waste?

Answer 14

-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

Question 15

What is the issue with materials used in technology?

Answer 15

Most are non-renewable and expensive - dangerous to the enviorment if not recycled properly

Question 16

What is fairphone?

Answer 16

Fairphone launched in 2013 - modular phone designed so users can replace parts - creates less waste uses responsibly sourced materials

Question 17

Impacts from mining materials for technology?

Answer 17

-mining raw materials lead to contamination and erosion - plastic damages the enviorment

Question 18

What are ways to reduce the impact of e-waste?

Answer 18

-make devices that can be upgraded with modular components

-use removable batteries

-use modern recycling facilities

Question 19

Issues with autonomous vehicles (self driving cars) ?

Answer 19

-social acceptability - society will not want possibily dangerous cars on the road that cause accidents

-risk of them malfunctioning

Question 20

What is data protection?

Answer 20

Data protection is about looking after the personal data of people

Question 21

What are 3 things that organisation which collect data must do?

Answer 21

-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

Question 22

What are 5 data collection sources?

Answer 22

-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

Question 23

What are 6 reasons for lawful data processing?

Answer 23

-consent
-legal obligation
-contral
-public task
-vital intrests
-legitimate intrests

Question 24

Example and meaning of consent?

Answer 24

Example:tick box to consent to recieve a newsletter

Meaning:person has agreed to their data being used

Question 25

Example and meaning of contract?

Answer 25

Example:a contract for buying a house

Meaning:processing is needed for a contract

Question 26

Example and meaning of legal obligation?

Answer 26

Example:keeping tax records

Meaning:processing data is needed to meet the law

Question 27

Example and meaning of vital intrests?

Answer 27

Example:teachers gives an injured students name to the paramedic

Meaning:processing is needed to protect somones life

Question 28

Example and meaning of public task?

Answer 28

Example:a criminal court

Meaning:for perfoming an official task

Question 29

Example and meaning of legitimate intrests?

Answer 29

Example:processing customer data

Meaning:there is clear benefit to the user or company

Question 30

How must data be stored?

Answer 30

-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

Question 31

Give 2 methods personal data can be stored?

Answer 31

-using paswords for any system with access to the data

-encrypting the data

Question 32

Give 2 ways extremley sensetive data can be stored?

Answer 32

-CCTV

-securit guards

-two-factor authentication

Question 33

Penalties from the data protection act?

Answer 33

-issuing warnings to the organisation

-order organisation to comply

More serious - fines eg 20 million

Question 34

What are cookies?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What is unauthorised access?

Answer 35

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

Question 36

What is unauthorised modification?

Answer 36

Affecting/gaining access to a system without permision and altering its cocntents eg deletig their files or rewriting programs to removed activation keys

Question 37

What are some ways of preventing copyright?

Answer 37

-license keys,activation keys and serial numbers

-physical products to show they are genuine

-online registration or activation

Question 38

What are lots of companies moving to software in the cloud?

Answer 38

-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

Question 39

What is software license?

Answer 39

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

Question 40

What is propretary software?

Answer 40

Peoprietary software is the most commonly used software by the genreal public today

Question 41

What are some commone features of proprietary software?

Answer 41

-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

Question 42

What is open software

Answer 42

Open source software provides access to the source code that was used to create it - users can develop and modify it

Question 43

Features of open source code

Answer 43

-Open source software is often developed collaboratively by many programmer

-other companies may give up time to improve the software

Question 44

Penalties for copyright?

Answer 44

-Fines

-Prison time

Question 45

The computer misuse Act (1990) Open source software is often developed collaboratively by many programmercreated following offences?

Answer 45

• 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

Question 46

Punsihment for breaking computer misuse Act (1990) ?

Answer 46

-fine
-10 years in prison

Question 47

Data protection act in 2018?

Answer 47

In 2018 Eu data protection regulation implemented