Ethical+Issues

Ethical Issues
 * describe legal and ethical issues related to the use of computers (e.g., music and video file downloading, spyware, identity theft, phishing, keystroke logging, packet sniffing, cyberbullying);
 * describe safeguards (e.g., effective passwords, secure websites, firewalls, biometric data) for preventing the unethical use of computers.

You may consider the following sample cases:

Case 1 Shariq and his friend Steve were working together on a school project at Steve’s home. Steve showed Shariq all the songs he has purchased from the iTunes store online for his mp3 player. Shariq was impressed by the variety and number of up-to-date tunes. Steve offered to download his library of tunes onto Shariq’s mp3 player.

Case 2 Orlando and Connor are assigned buddies in their history class. Their unit culminating activity included an essay about the effects on Canada after World War II. Students were to create a 10 review questions to accompany this topic. Unfortunately, Connor was in the hospital for a week prior to the due date due to an appendix operation. Orlando was keeping her up to date with the work she now had to do to catch up in all her classes – especially history since they are class buddies. Connor had missed so much class that she didn’t feel comfortable writing this essay and asked Orlando if she could borrow her essay and questions to help her get started.