What is ethics?
What is right and wrong and how people should behave
What are legal issues?
Laws drawn up to govern activities and control computer crime
Examples of legal issues
Unauthorised access to data
Identity theft
Software piracy
Fraud and trolling
What are cultural issues?
Refers to ideas, behaviour, beliefs and values of a group of people. Relate to how computers have impacted our lives.
Examples of cultural issues
changes in a workplace
replacing human roles
Ways people interact with each other , social media
Examples of negative environmental impacts
large global energy requirements to run computers
Use of rare and non renewable resources
Use of toxic material which are not disposed of properly.
Examples of positive environmental impacts
Homeworking reduces the need to travel, which reduces co2
Reduction of use of paper due to documents
Computers enable scientific research.