ICT: Topic 6
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- Created on: 13-05-16 17:56
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- Topic 6: Legal, Social, Ethical and Environmental Issues when using ICT
- Data Protection Act
- Definition: A law designed to protect personal data stored on a computer
- Purpose: To control the way information is handled & to give legal rights to people who have information stored about them
- How it Works: Rules are set up that people have to follow. An information commissioner enforces the rules.
- People
- Data Subject: Someone who has data stored about them somewhere out of their control
- Data Consumer: The person or company who has information about someone
- Information Commissioner: The person who has the power to enforce the act
- Features that can help people with disabilities use ICT
- ICT Systems can have features that will make it easier for people with disabilities to use
- Screen: Touch Screen makes it easier for the user to control because do not need to grip anything e.g. mouse
- Touch Screen also allows the user to zoom in if eyesight is poor
- Voice Recognition: This can be used when someone cant type, when they speak a sentence it is recorded and translated into text
- Braille Keyboards: These are often used for the blind & visually impaired. It's made up of dots which the user can touch and related to letters. This is an example of an input device
- Voice Activation: This is a system which helps people who can't speak communicate. Thye have a device on their head which registers what they think and then it says it via a computer monitor
- Screen: Touch Screen makes it easier for the user to control because do not need to grip anything e.g. mouse
- ICT Systems can have features that will make it easier for people with disabilities to use
- Environment
- Issues: Many consumers tend to change their ICT equipment often meaning that the old items are wasted
- This is a problem because many items contain toxic substances which will harm the enivronment
- This could lead to streams and lakes becoming polluted therefore making this very dangerous especially if one of them is a water supply
- This is a problem because many items contain toxic substances which will harm the enivronment
- How to safely dispose of ICT waste
- Return it to the manufacturer
- Take it to a professional waste disposal
- Donate the goods
- Key Terms
- Disposal: to get rid of something
- Deployment: take to a place or position of military action
- Recycle: convert waste into reusable material
- Issues: Many consumers tend to change their ICT equipment often meaning that the old items are wasted
- Data Protection Act
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