Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A451 - 1.1: Ethical, Environmental and Legal Considerations
- Computer Misuse Act of 1990
- It created three new offences:
- Unauthorised access to Computer Material
- Unauthorised access with intent to commit a crime
- Unauthorised modification of computer material
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
- Typical Breaches of the CDP Act are:
- Using Unlicensed Software
- Downloading Music illegally
- Streaming movies illegally
- Copying work, claiming it as your own (Plagiarism)
- Data Protection Act 1998
- Aim is to protect people's personal data
- Who is able to access the data?
- Is the data still accurate?
- Will the data be sold?
- Will data be removed if it is no longer needed for its original purpose
- Recycling
- Computers use a lot of raw material
- At the end of a computers life it is more environmentally and
economically better to recycle the useful parts
- WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) dispose of old equipment and recycle it.
- Some companies refurbish old computers and sell 'em
- This lets someone who can't afford a new computer use an older one and the
Computer stays useful for longer and avoids recycling for the time being
- Energy Use
- Some computers have a sleep/hibernate system, this saves some energy
- Ethics
- Some ethical Issues
- Replacing workers with machines
- Computing and Privacy
- Responsibility of Computer Professionals
- Computing Disablity
- Computing and Political Freedom