Ethical, legal and environmental impacts of digital technology
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- Created on: 26-11-18 12:15
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- Ethical, legal and environmental impacts of digital technology
- Ethics (Handling private and personal data issues)
- Deciding the scope of personal and private information they can gather.
- The confidential treatment of such information.
- The accuracy of information – who checks that the information is correct.
- The purposes for which various categories of information may be used.
- The rights of a person - question of consent?
- The digital divide
- Drones
- Self driving cars
- Artificial Intelligence
- Issues of privacy and cybersecurity
- Causes of loss of privacy
- The monitoring of online activity, including browsing histories and use of social media.
- The interception and reading of email messages.
- Distribution of databases storing personal information.
- Theft of private information by hackers.
- Causes of loss of privacy
- Codes of conduct
- Informal codes
- Formal codes
- Personal codes
- Legislation
- DPA 1998
- Computer Misuse 1990
- Environmental Impacts
- Carbon emissions
- Landfill
- Increased populations
- Repair or recycling
- Paper and packaging waste
- Positive impacts
- In the development of new materials and processes that are sustainable and do not harm the environment.
- Enabling the study of our environment to better understand how it works and the impact of our actions on it
- Smarter technologies that respond to how we use them and adjust themselves to reduce their environmental impact
- Helping experts from all fields share their research, experience and ideas to come up with better solutions.
- Communications that reduce the environmental impact people would normally cause from traveling
- Improved education, including distance learning and visual learning using integrated technologies.
- Ethics (Handling private and personal data issues)
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