1.6- Ethical, legal, cultural and environmental impacts of digital technology

The law that protects personal data, ensuring it is stored safely, used lawfully, and you have the right to see and correct it

Makes unauthorised access (usually called hacking), and creating or spreading viruses illegal

A law to protect content creators, to ensure their intellectual property is not stolen or used without permission, covers software, music and films

You must have this, to use software created by someone else. It makes sure the creators get paid for the work they did

Software which is made freely available, including the source code. usually developed and supported by a community.

Software which remains the property of the creators, you pay for a license and cannot copy it

The high-level code for the application program, this is made public for open source software but remains a secret in proprietary software

Illegal under the Computer Misuse Act. It is deliberately accessing a computer without permission

It’s illegal to write or spread these under the Computer Misuse Act, they spread and damage computers

The individual about whom information is being processed, e.g. a customer, patient or employee, in the Data Protection Act

Copying software without making payment to the owner for a licence, in breach of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act

The reason for collecting personal data, you must state this and not use data for another reason, according to the DPA

Small text files that are saved by websites in your browser cache. They track your behaviour and can be a privacy issue