Lecture: In the last week we learned about Social and Ethical Issues. There are many problems when it comes to WWW which are: Privacy - digital trails, freedom vs protection of information and the rights of individuals and/or groups, Intellectual property, Copyright, Plagiarism and Security. The reasons why we get these problems is because of: characteristics of the Internet - open protocols and no enforceable standards, characteristics of Internet information - anyone can publish, no control on bias or unethical information, and characteristics of Internet users - a lot of smart or dumb people. When it comes to copyright or plagiarism there are ways to make sure that information received or published by the person has references. Last the issues of protection - make sure you have all the req'd security systems in the computer and when it comes to giving your personal information out, make sure you only give it to trustworthy and secure sites and if you can get away with it only give limited info to the site or organisation/company.
Workshop: This week we had to visit the copyright website and make a list of information sheets that will be relevant to my undergraduate course. Then visit US Department of Justice website and summarise the case US vs SANKAS.
The information sheets that would be useful for me are: Artworks, Computer Software, Copyright Amendment Act and Graphic Designers.
In the case of US vs SANKAS I found he was the co-leader of a software privacy group known as DrinkOrDie, in which there were 65 members from 12 countries and he was sentenced to 46 months in jail.
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