Legal and Ethical Use of

Technology
 Ethics for Computer Use
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Ethical Issues in Technology
and Software

1. Unauthorized Access and

Use of Hardware, Software,
Network, and Computer
Files
1. Unauthorized Access and Use of
Hardware, Software, Network, and
Computer Files
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malicious acts.
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it restricts teachers and
students from accessing malicious
data that may do harm in school’s
computer hardware and files.
Ethical Issues in Technology
and Software

2. Hardware Theft and

Vandalism
2. Hardware Theft and
Computer Theft is stealing of
Vandalism
The best precautionary
hardware and its device.
measure in keeping
Computer Vandalism is the act the
of
hardware
damaging orsafe is to hardware−
breaking have a full
awareness on itsand
cutting the cables security
wires, by not
smashing theit computer
leaving and its and
anywhere
devices and
unattended. deleting of software or
computer files.
Ethical Issues in Technology
and Software

3. Software Theft
 Software
Software piracy
Theft- form of software
theft.
• When a person
copies illegally
How or When copyrighted
this happens? software for
personal or
business use.
 End-user License Agreement
- Or
Some single-user
(EULA)of the conditions
license are:
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prohibited is a
may type thetosoftware
of license
install give
violation
copies
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software law,
and colleagues.
packages
on only one computer.
In US, penalties
• Users by
purchased reach up to
arean individual.
prohibited to install
$250,000 and up to five years in jail.
the software on a network
In Philippines, penalties reach up
(school computer lab network)
to Php 1,500,000 and up to 6-9
• Users may make one copy for
imprisonment
backup purposes.
Various Types of Software Licenses Used in
Education Used in Schools
Characteristics
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Ethical Issues in Technology
and Software

4. Information Theft
What is Information theft?
- also
is getting
a computer
confidential
crime when info.one
about school steal
deliberately
administrations,
information for
academic
purposes officials,of
teachers,
studying staff,
howandto
students
compete w/out
with legal
other
authorization.
organizations or
 Encryptio
What is an Encryption?
n of converting
-is the process
readable data to unreadable one.
- An encryption key Is needed to
enable the person to convert it back
in readable form.
-a person who illegally accesses
info. would only see characters that
do not contain any meaning.
Ethical Issues in Technology
and Software

5. Malicious Acts in
Software
5.
a.)Malicious
Spam Acts in
Software
• Unwanted
The message
ff. malicious being
acts are
received.
commonly experienced in e-mails,
• Truly annoying
cellphones, instant orfor it messaging
text fills up our
inbox
devices andand then later wastes our
blogs.
time in deleting.

• Spam sentsent through

through Internetinstant
called
• In Telephony is called a split.
messaging
a spam. devices called a spim.
 What are the different ways to
reduce receiving SPAM messages?
• E-mail
By adjusting theand
filtering built-in settings
Anti-spam
-in your
Blockse-mails to delete e-mail
unwanted spam
automatically.from
messages designated
• sources.
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block
a particular
or remove
sender valid/legal
or subject. e-
mail messages.
 b.)
phishing
- called as carding or spoofing
- a scam in which an agent sends a
legitimate-looking e-mail that
attempts to steal personal and
financial information including
bank account numbers of the
recipient.
d.)Malware
c.) Adware
--ismalicious software
a software that causes
that incorporates
harm
the to one or more
presentation of computer.
advertisement
- it enters to the scene when an
as condition for operating
attachment to a message that the
software.
carries virus is opened & then
later shared to other computers
via network or via portable
storage medium (CD, flash drive,
etc.)
 Examples of Acceptable Use of
Acceptable and
School Technology
Unacceptable
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Deleting by
Running the policies
antivirus
unwanted and onor
software
messages
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old data
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other networks
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attachments,
computers
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peripherals,
servers. disks.
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Using the appropriate
Internet used and
ethically and
• Being polite and using appropriate
• Signing
reporting
legally. correspondence.
misuse and security
language.
issues.
 Examples of Unacceptable Use
of School Technology
•• Gaining
Altering access
Harassing
Conducting
Transmitting to by
anydeleting
ancommercial
individual
material
software pay-for-
using
that the
activities,
violates
files,
view
any site.or products,
Internet.
advertising
local
downloading country’s
programs, or taking
regulation,
or part
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suchpolitical
Giving
copyingas out lobbying.
your own
copyrighted,
or installing or others’
threatening,
unauthorized
Downloading text, graphics, or
private
or information,
obscene
files and material.
programs. such
engaging in behaviors that may be as
•• Vandalizing
Plagiarizing
address, phoneequipment,
number, digital
• Assuming the
considered identity
obscene, ororusing the
abusive,
files, or
passwords.
libelous, willfully
indecent, spreading
vulgar,ofprofane,
passwords or materials another.
computer
or lewd. viruses.
Thank
You!!!