OCR GCSE Computer Science 1.6 Ethical, legal, cultural and environmental impacts overview quiz quiz

Ethical

Legal

Environmental

Financial

Any person or group with an interest in, or affected by, a system or decision

Only a shareholder who owns part of the technology company that built the system

Only a government body that regulates the technology industry

Only the programmer who actually wrote the software

The Computer Misuse Act 1990

The Data Protection Act 2018

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

The Freedom of Information Act 2000

Unauthorised access to computer material

Unauthorised access with intent to commit a further offence

Unauthorised modification of computer material

It does not break the Computer Misuse Act

The Data Protection Act 2018, covering personal data

The Computer Misuse Act 1990, covering hacking offences

The Consumer Rights Act 2015, covering faulty goods

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Software whose source code is freely available to view, modify and share

Software whose source code is kept secret and is only ever licensed for a fee

Software that can only be run on the Linux operating system

Software that contains no copyright and belongs to nobody

The user can freely edit the source code and then recompile the program

It usually comes with official support and tested, reliable updates

It is always completely free of charge to the user

It can be legally copied and shared with anyone at all

Spam email and unwanted advertising files that clog up a person's email inbox

Electrical energy that is wasted by large internet data centres

Discarded electronic devices and equipment such as old phones and computers

Data that has been permanently deleted from a hard drive

It always uses purely renewable energy with no carbon emissions at all

Devices simply last forever once they are made, so absolutely none are ever thrown away

It produces no waste at any stage of the manufacturing process

It uses energy and consumes raw materials including rare metals that must be mined

The gap between those with good access to technology and the skills to use it, and those without

The boundary inside a computer between the hardware and the software

The split in the wider software industry between open source software and proprietary software products

The difference between continuous analogue signals and discrete digital signals

Lower production costs for everyday goods

People in routine jobs may lose their jobs

New skilled technical jobs are created for workers

Dangerous and repetitive work is made much safer

Caches

Registers

Cookies

Drivers