This chapter is about privacy, security and ethics where we able to:
- Identify the most significant concerns for effective implementation of
computer technology.
- Discuss the primary privacy issues of accuracy, property, and access.
- Describe the impact of large databases, private networks, the Internet,
and the Web on privacy.
- Discuss online identity and major laws on privacy.
- Discuss cybercrimes including creation of malicious programs such as
viruses, worms, Trojan horse, and zombies as well as denial of service
attacks, Internet scams, identity theft, cyberbullying, rogue Wi Fi
hotspots, and data manipulation.
- Detail ways to protect computer security including restricting access,
encrypting data, anticipating disasters, and preventing data loss.
- Discuss computer ethics including copyright law, software piracy, digital
rights management, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, as well as
plagiarism and ways to identify plagiarism