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1.8 Ethical, legal, cultural and environmental concerns

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is meant by the term stakeholder?

a)

A stakeholder is the person who owns a product or oganisation

b)

A stakeholder is anyone who has an interest in or concern about a product or organisation

c)

A stakeholder is the person who buys products from an organisation

d)

A stakeholder is the person who creates the legislation that governs the buying and selling of products

2.

Which legislation governs the act of hacking?

a)

The Freedom of Information Act

b)

The Data Protection Act

c)

The Creative Commons Licence

d)

The Computer Misuse Act

3.

What does the Data Protection Act give an individual the right to do?

a)

A right to request the data and organisation holds about them without paying a fee

b)

A right to request the data and organisation holds on them for a fee

c)

A right to request the data and organisation holds about anyone without paying a fee

d)

A right to request the data and organisation holds about anyone for a fee

4.

Which legislation governs the act of intellectual property theft?

a)

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act

b)

The Data Protection Act

c)

The Freedom of Information Act

d)

The Computer Misuse Act

5.

Who is responsible for making sure the requirements of the Data Protection Act are upheld in a organisation?

a)

The Individual

b)

The Data Controller

c)

The Stakeholder

d)

The Computer Network

6.

Which of these statements is true about the Freedom of Information Act?

a)

An individual has the right to have any of their personal data corrected that is inaccurate or out of date

b)

An individual has the right to compensation if their personal data is stolen

c)

An individual has right of access to information held by public authorities

d)

An individual has the right to share any intellectual property they have

7.

Why would an author obtain a Creative Commons Licence?

a)

To stop the public sharing their work

b)

To make sure their work has a patent

c)

To make sure they are able to legally sell their work

d)

To give the public the right to share, use and build upon work they have created

8.

Which of the following statements is true about open source software?

a)

The software cannot be copied, modified or shared

b)

The software can be copied, modified or shared

c)

There is normally a cost to pay for a licence to use the software

d)

The software is not available for public use

9.

Which of the following statements is false about proprietary software?

a)

The software cannot be copied, modified or shared

b)

The software can be copied, modified or shared

c)

A fee is usually required to purchase a software licence

d)

An example of the software is the Microsoft Office suite

10.

Which of the following statements is false about privacy and the internet?

a)

An organisation must make their privacy settings easy to find and manage

b)

An individual has the right to use encryption technology to encrypt their personal data

c)

An individual has the right to freedom from deformation of their character

d)

When an individual deletes data from their social media account the data must be permanently removed from the severs of the organisation

11.

A company produces an App using only the ASCII character set. What issue may they not have considered?

a)

Cultural

b)

Legal

c)

Environmental

d)

Moral/Ethical

12.

Which of these statements is true?

a)

There are no environmental issue with computing

b)

Only the greenhouse effect is linked to computers

c)

The advance in technology should not worry about the environment

d)

There are environmental benefits and drawbacks to developing technology

13.

Hayley has designed a new web app. She thinks another company is changing her idea. Which act would Hayley use to stop this person from doing this?

a)

Creative Commons Licence

b)

Computer Misuse Act

c)

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act

d)

Freedom of Information Act

14.

Charlie uses social media regularly. What step would you recommend to be more secure online?

a)

Always use the same password

b)

Only post non-private data/pictures

c)

Always use a mobile phone for security

d)

Share other people's pictures as much as possible