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Worksheets1.8 Ethical, legal, cultural and environmental concerns
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is meant by the term stakeholder?
A stakeholder is the person who owns a product or oganisation
A stakeholder is anyone who has an interest in or concern about a product or organisation
A stakeholder is the person who buys products from an organisation
A stakeholder is the person who creates the legislation that governs the buying and selling of products
Which legislation governs the act of hacking?
The Freedom of Information Act
The Data Protection Act
The Creative Commons Licence
The Computer Misuse Act
What does the Data Protection Act give an individual the right to do?
A right to request the data and organisation holds about them without paying a fee
A right to request the data and organisation holds on them for a fee
A right to request the data and organisation holds about anyone without paying a fee
A right to request the data and organisation holds about anyone for a fee
Which legislation governs the act of intellectual property theft?
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
The Data Protection Act
The Freedom of Information Act
The Computer Misuse Act
Who is responsible for making sure the requirements of the Data Protection Act are upheld in a organisation?
The Individual
The Data Controller
The Stakeholder
The Computer Network
Which of these statements is true about the Freedom of Information Act?
An individual has the right to have any of their personal data corrected that is inaccurate or out of date
An individual has the right to compensation if their personal data is stolen
An individual has right of access to information held by public authorities
An individual has the right to share any intellectual property they have
Why would an author obtain a Creative Commons Licence?
To stop the public sharing their work
To make sure their work has a patent
To make sure they are able to legally sell their work
To give the public the right to share, use and build upon work they have created
Which of the following statements is true about open source software?
The software cannot be copied, modified or shared
The software can be copied, modified or shared
There is normally a cost to pay for a licence to use the software
The software is not available for public use
Which of the following statements is false about proprietary software?
The software cannot be copied, modified or shared
The software can be copied, modified or shared
A fee is usually required to purchase a software licence
An example of the software is the Microsoft Office suite
Which of the following statements is false about privacy and the internet?
An organisation must make their privacy settings easy to find and manage
An individual has the right to use encryption technology to encrypt their personal data
An individual has the right to freedom from deformation of their character
When an individual deletes data from their social media account the data must be permanently removed from the severs of the organisation
A company produces an App using only the ASCII character set. What issue may they not have considered?
Cultural
Legal
Environmental
Moral/Ethical
Which of these statements is true?
There are no environmental issue with computing
Only the greenhouse effect is linked to computers
The advance in technology should not worry about the environment
There are environmental benefits and drawbacks to developing technology
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?
Creative Commons Licence
Computer Misuse Act
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
Freedom of Information Act
Charlie uses social media regularly. What step would you recommend to be more secure online?
Always use the same password
Only post non-private data/pictures
Always use a mobile phone for security
Share other people's pictures as much as possible
