issues

Question 1

What is ethics?

Answer 1

What is right and wrong and how people should behave

Question 2

What are legal issues?

Answer 2

Laws drawn up to govern activities and control computer crime

Question 3

Examples of legal issues

Answer 3

Unauthorised access to data
Identity theft
Software piracy
Fraud and trolling

Question 4

What are cultural issues?

Answer 4

Refers to ideas, behaviour, beliefs and values of a group of people. Relate to how computers have impacted our lives.

Question 5

Examples of cultural issues

Answer 5

changes in a workplace
replacing human roles
Ways people interact with each other , social media

Question 6

Examples of negative environmental impacts

Answer 6

large global energy requirements to run computers
Use of rare and non renewable resources
Use of toxic material which are not disposed of properly.

Question 7

Examples of positive environmental impacts

Answer 7

Homeworking reduces the need to travel, which reduces co2
Reduction of use of paper due to documents
Computers enable scientific research.