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Legal issues in computer science refer to the laws and regulations that govern the use, development, and distribution of software and hardware. These issues include intellectual property rights, privacy concerns, cybersecurity, and liability for damages caused by software or hardware failures. It is important for computer scientists to be aware of these legal issues to ensure that their work is ethical and compliant with the law.
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- 2014(Publication Date)
- The English Press(Publisher)
________________________ WORLD TECHNOLOGIES ________________________ Chapter- 8 Legal Aspects of Computing Legal aspects of computing are related to various areas of law. Cyberlaw is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative, transactional, and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies. It is less a distinct field of law than property or contract law, as it is a domain covering many areas of law and regulation. Some leading topics include intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression, and jurisdiction. Information Technology Law (or IT Law ) is a set of recent legal enactments, currently in existence in several countries, which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally. These legal enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software, protection of computer software, access and control of digital information, privacy, security, internet access and usage, and electronic commerce. These laws have been described as paper laws for paperless environment. Areas of law There is intellectual property in general, including copyright, rules on fair use, and special rules on copy protection for digital media, and circumvention of such schemes. The area of software patents is controversial, and still evolving in Europe and elsewhere. The related topics of software licenses, end user license agreements, free software licenses and open-source licenses can involve discussion of product liability, professional liability of individual developers, warranties, contract law, trade secrets and intellectual property. In various countries, areas of the computing and communication industries are regulated – often strictly – by government bodies. There are rules on the uses to which computers and computer networks may be put, in particular there are rules on unauthorized access, data privacy and spamming.
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- 2014(Publication Date)
- Learning Press(Publisher)
________________________ WORLD TECHNOLOGIES ________________________ Chapter 1 Legal Aspects of Computing Legal aspects of computing are related to various areas of law. Cyberlaw is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative, transactional, and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies. It is less a distinct field of law than property or contract law, as it is a domain covering many areas of law and regulation. Some leading topics include intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression, and jurisdiction. Information Technology Law (or IT Law ) is a set of recent legal enactments, currently in existence in several countries, which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally. These legal enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software, protection of computer software, access and control of digital information, privacy, security, internet access and usage, and electronic commerce. These laws have been described as paper laws for paperless environment. Areas of law There is intellectual property in general, including copyright, rules on fair use, and special rules on copy protection for digital media, and circumvention of such schemes. The area of software patents is controversial, and still evolving in Europe and elsewhere. The related topics of software licenses, end user license agreements, free software licenses and open-source licenses can involve discussion of product liability, professional liability of individual developers, warranties, contract law, trade secrets and intellectual property. In various countries, areas of the computing and communication industries are regulated – often strictly – by government bodies. There are rules on the uses to which computers and computer networks may be put, in particular there are rules on unauthorized access, data privacy and spamming.
eBook - PDF- Richard S. Rosenberg(Author)
- 2013(Publication Date)
- Academic Press(Publisher)
8— COMPUTERS AND THE LAW Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. William Shakespeare, King Henry VI Part II INTRODUCTION A given technological innovation will inevitably secure its place in society as the existing system of laws is expanded to accommodate it. What is remarkable about computer tech-nology is how fast this process has occurred and how many interesting and important legal issues have arisen. As many have noted, computer professionals and legal professionals share at least one thing: they both have an extensive and impenetrable jargon. In a very short time a new subdiscipline has come into being, usually called computer law. One law-yer (Thomas Christo) has argued that it is wrong to speak of computer law when in fact there is just the Law. 1 Nevertheless, a number of universities do offer courses in computer law and there are several journals in this area. What, then, are some of the issues that fall within the purview of computer law? There are two major areas of concern. Computer crime involves the use of the computer, with or without computer networks, to steal or embezzle money in a manner that could not easily have been done otherwise. There are also such crimes as stealing computer time, unlawful access to files, the acquisition of privileged information, and the actual destruc-tion of computer files. This last activity has probably become the most highly publicized, as such terms as virus, worm, and hacker have penetrated the public consciousness. While much computer crime has traditionally been perpetrated in banks, small and large companies, and government bureaucracies, viruses have had a direct impact on the ordi-167 168 Computers and the Law nary citizen at home. Computer viruses seem to arrive as regularly as biological ones and with occasionally the same devastating effect.
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Methodological and Ethical Aspects
- Roman Z. Morawski(Author)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- De Gruyter(Publisher)
The most frequently addressed issues of computer ethics are: protection of data confidentiality, protection of intellectual prop- erty, fair access to information and reliability of operations performed on information. Both individual computers and computer networks (local, regional and global) can be used to commit common crimes, to violate privacy or to conduct espionage. They can cause damage to individuals or institutions if the software does not work as expected, because of a programmer’s error or his deliberate action; they can perform sophisticated logical and mathematical operations whose correctness cannot be checked by anybody. Computer ethics is to determine to what extent and in what sit- uations we can trust computer systems, and what restrictions should be imposed on their use. IT means can be used for performing illegal operations, being serious ethi- cal violations, which are, however, neither specific to the scientific community nor very frequent among its members; therefore, they will not be discussed here. The spectrum of IT-related ethical issues is systematically expanding with the de- velopment of IT, and it is increasingly more and more identified with the spectrum of ethical issue related to the infosphere. This is because the social impact of the IT de- velopment is becoming more and more recognised, and – consequently – ethical de- mands regarding the “ecological” management of the infosphere are more and more explicitly articulated. The relevant public debates focus on such issues as: – the IT-induced evolution of the social context in which ethical problems, unre- lated to technology, appear and are solved; – the increase in the objective scope and subjective sense of anonymity of opera- tions performed on information; – the fuzzification of responsibility and increased sense of impunity for unethical processing of information.
eBook - PDF- Suraj Singh Panwar(Author)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- Arcler Press(Publisher)
THE ETHICAL AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF A COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEM 9 LEARNING OBJECTIVES: In this chapter, you will learn about: • The ethical and legal inferences of a computer information system; • History of ethics in terms of information system; • The notion of code of ethics and digital rights management; • Digital Millennium Copyright Act. CHAPTER • Copyright • First generation computers • Second generation computers • Creative Commons • Millennium rights • Digital rights management • Ethics • Techno-socio-economic • Aristotelian theory • Intellectual property rights KEYWORDS Introduction to Computer Information Systems 162 9.1. INTRODUCTION The importance of information technology (IT) has caused the dependence on computers as important methods that has penetrated all of society, containing the education field and its institutions of higher learning. Though, the speed at which change in technology has happen it seems to have been far longer than far quicker than thought of their effect upon society or cultural norms and principles or the development of values leading the use of the technology. Additionally, the new technology has caused new ethical and legal questions to come in front, and that is IT shows skill and gear of such control and of popularity, so some people put their thought that it makes exclusive moral claim and start special ideas about right and wrong. The using and storing the IT of various types has come into focus many ethical concerns, many of them have put attention on and been exclusive to the Internet and the capability to attract people, contains those on college campuses, to the world.
eBook - PDF- Christine Mullings, Stephanie Kenna, Marilyn Deegan, Seamus Ross, Christine Mullings, Stephanie Kenna, Marilyn Deegan, Seamus Ross(Authors)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- De Gruyter Saur(Publisher)
Computer Usage and the Law Lorraine Warren and Peter Adman Introduction Over the last fifty years, society has become increasingly dependent on the use of computer technology. Computer usage is now an integral part of almost every professional, commercial, industrial, and leisure activity. Inevitably, a wide variety of criminal offences can be committed either as a result of, or by means of computer technology. The extensive permeation of society by a rapidly evolving, immature technology has posed novel problems for the legal system. Law tends to develop in a reactive manner: statute law is usually the result of lengthy campaigns mounted by pressure groups; case law results from the resolution of specific disputes. In computing, the pace of technological change has, not surprisingly, often outstripped the development of the legal system. However, there are three main areas where legislation specific to computer usage has recently been introduced: • system security (the Computer Misuse Act, 1990); • copyright (the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988); • data protection (the Data Protection Act, 1988). Notwithstanding the inevitable uncertainties, it is of key importance that those responsible for managing institutional computing services have full knowledge of these laws. Until the 1980s, most academics in the humanities were largely insulated from such concerns. Humanities computing was limited to a relatively small number of groups and individuals mostly concerned with computationally intensive tasks such as the quantitative analysis of textual information. Such tasks were confined to large, centrally maintained mainframe computers running dedicated software written in-house. In such situations, legal require-ments could largely be dealt with unseen at institutional level. 1 ' 2
eBook - ePub- Shareef M. Shareef, Vinnaras Nithyanantham(Authors)
- 2001(Publication Date)
- Bentham Science Publishers(Publisher)
Legal And Ethical Issues In Educational Technology Shareef M. Shareef , Vinnaras NithyananthamAbstract
ICT is an effective power in driving education, social, political, and economic reforms. Some countries cannot afford to stay passive to ICT if they want to compete and struggle in the global economy, particularly the developing countries. New technology also becomes more predominant in our establishments, As updates and illegal e-hacking in modern technology are inevitable concerns associated with the ethical use of this technology rise. As its forces and a new style of workplace learning have motivated organizations to progressively integrate advanced technologies to transform the way establishments learn and the way training is delivered. This chapter explains and analyses the legal and associated ethical issues that affect educational technology. In addition, it tackles the code of ethics, and the ethical mistakes are typically oversight. To obtain the knowledge of ethics, one must follow the ingredients of ethics which are the discipline, process, and thinking and doing the right thing and living justly.Keywords: Accessibility, Amazon, Code of Ethics, Cyber Security, Digital Code, Education Platform, Education Policy, Educational Technology Law, Ethical Issues, Ethical Use, Facebook, Google, ICT, National networks, Network Privacy, Social Media, Special Education, STEM, TECH SMART, User-Generated.6.1. INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, the knowledge of computers and computer-associated technologies has become mandatory for educators and it is the finest solution to develop student learning. However, when the teachers and students depend on educational technology, they tend to experience different kinds of complex ethical and legal issues. In this chapter, we will try to shed light on some of the issues and challenges that affect the teaching and learning process.6.2. LAW AND REGULATIONS
“Educational Technology Law” is a new and emerging sub-discipline in Education. Therefore, the focus of discussions must include the classification of different kinds of stakeholders in Educational Technology and the different forms
eBook - PDF- G.Michael Schneider, Judith Gersting(Authors)
- 2018(Publication Date)
- Cengage Learning EMEA(Publisher)
For example, you have read about the mathematics of algorithmic efficiency (Chapter 3), the hardware implementation of computer systems (Chapters 4 and 5), computer networks (Chapter 7), and software development (Chapters 9 and 10). However, in this chapter, we focus on the human issues lurking behind these technical details. We can’t provide a comprehensive list of such issues; such a list would be way too long, and it is growing daily. Instead, we introduce skills that will help you to think and reason carefully when mak-ing personal decisions about computing. This chapter also discusses impor-tant societal issues related to information technology and personal privacy and points you toward resources to help you explore these issues in greater detail. Making critical decisions about computing technology is unavoid-able. Increasingly, our society is being driven by the access to and control of Copyright 2019 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. 793 information. As citizens of our communities, our country, and the world, we want our decisions to be well informed and well reasoned. Whenever humans make decisions about things they value, there are con-flicts and trade-offs. The field of ethics , the study of moral philosophy, has a long history of looking at how to identify and resolve such conflicts, and we will borrow from several classical theories of ethics. In this chapter, we pres-ent a number of case studies built around complex ethical issues related to computing and information.
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