Ethical, Legal, Environmental Issues

Privacy - to what extent do we have a right to privacy (often trade off between security and privacy) Inclusivity - to what extent does computing marginalise people (elderly can’t adapt to change, developing countries might get left behind) Professionalism - does computing work in work context? lack of training/ standards can cause mass unemployment as computers take jobs. Plagiarism, theft of code

Health - mental + physical. tech can make huge difference to health. social media not healthy fo r physical health energy: electricity and non renewable recourses Resources: finite resources used in technology in trace amounts, hard to extract as used in trace amounts

Social media, spreading information, influence opinion

illegal to make unauthorised changes to computer material to commit further crimes (blackmail) or to impair computers operation (virus)

Potected with patents and copy rights

legal document, stops other people from making or using their invention. Software usually can’t be patented

legal ownership, about permission

shows that you have permission to use the software

licensed under strict conditions. user cannot modify or distribute as source code is not available, has already been translated

license allows user to study, modify, or distribute