Week 12, Social and Ethical Issues

Lecture
In week 12 our lecture was about the Social and Ethical Issues on the World Wide Web. There were a couple of problems stated to us during the lecture. They included intellectual property, Copyright and Security. We were also shown what the problems included. You need to make sure when opening any new document that you always do a virus scan. The first thing you must do when starting up a new computer is download an Antivirus scan to protect yourself from any viruses.

Tutorial
* An introduction to copyright in Australia.
* Ownership of copy write
* Websites: creating and publishing on the Internet.
* Quotes & Extracts: Copyright obligation
* Copyright in Australia: Information Sources

The Case mentioned on this web page is called Operation Buccaneer. It's a case about International copyright piracy which took place in December 2001. There were 16 defendants who have been convicted of felony and 13 of them have been sentenced to prison for 46 months.


Readings
There were many readings for this week so I will only write about a few of them. I found our first reading to be the most interesting. It was called EFF's Top 12 Ways to Protect our Online Privacy. This explained in detail how to keep yourself safe when using the World Wide Web.


Electronic Monitoring was about employees and employers defending the case on privacy in the workplace. There were many different views on how it should be more private for workplaces.


Computer Viruses are very common in today's computers. Out reading Computer Viruses and the Internet shows us how computer viruses have become more extreme in today's computers.