4.8 section 6: communication: consequences of computing

-a shift in demand for many low skilled workers to few highly skilled workers especially in IT -complete replacing of low skilled workers in some fields online banking supermarket self checkouts -increase in automated decision making modern stock market-automatic trading real time hotel pricing -supporting decisions of qualified health practitioners computers cannot yet legally make decisions alone in the medical filed

• would the AI have rights • who would be responsible for it • should it and can it morally be terminated • will it have to abide by the law

• 2015: 350,000 computer devices where disposed of in Europe and the US everyday • only 20% of computer components are recycled the rest go to landfill • many of these components are hazardous and cannot be put in landfill in developed countries due to environmental laws • waste is often shipped to less developed countries with weaker environmental laws which effects the health of the poorest citizens there

• to what extent can governments censor media • UK government: requires internet providers to block sites infringing extremists terrorism and pornography as well as copy right laws • North Korean government: access to global internet is restricted to the political elite and the majority of all newspapers and broadcast comes from the Korean Central News Agency • Tim Berners-Lee is leading a group to make access to the internet a UN recognised human right

• category 1: chosen by user: smart watches • category 2: passive monitoring; CCTV -category 3: forced tracking: internal monitors/ankle tags company activity tracking

• activity on the internet is tracked and logged • by the time your 18 your info is held on about 4 public and private databases • data mining is used to identify patterns and make predictions • Hyper scale computing is used to easily extract personal data

-business: improve targeted customers reduce waste increase profits -science, engineering, medicine: make advancements in diagnosis and treatment

• June 6th 2010: Khaled Saeed was beaten to death by police • Feb 6th 2011: Facebook page We Are All Khaled arises with 400,000 followers • WAK calls for protest on Jan 25th 2011 with #jan25 • Jan 26 201 1 government shuts down the Egyptian internet • Twitter launches SpeakToTweet allowing Egyptians to call a number and leave a message to be tweeted under #Egypt • government shuts down all cellular services • February 11 2011 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is driven out of office after 30 years

-2008 Right to be Forgotten in Europe people can apply to have data removed from index pages -2018 GDPR law in the EU people have more rights over personal data

• The Onion Router was created by Paul Syverson, Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, to protect U.S. intelligence communications online in he mid 1990s • it was released to the public in 2002 to give everyday internet users privacy form co-operations

• used for secure military communication • media reports from dangerous locations • law enforcement use • privacy for friends and family • protection for activist groups

• illegal activities - selling of narcotics

• virtual currency • totally virtual • hard to track • not produced, owned, managed or controlled by government, federal or royal mint • essentially exists outside the law • makes them most suitable for illegal use

2018 UK data protection act: EU general data protection regulation 2000 regulation of investigatory powers act 1990 computer misuse act 1988 copyright designs and patents act# 1988 malicious communications act