Privacy of Information

Privacy of information means that it is important information and you do not want everyone to see what you have done. On Facebook you are able to hide your comments so no one else is able to have see to that comments. This means that none of your friends are able to see like your profile

It also means that you can hide very personal information from employers or even friends as it could be very sensitive information and you do not want friends to know about.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is when you use someone else ideas or phases and use them and put them in to your own words and then put them into your work which would be a serious offence. This could be phases that people have said or have been written down in which case it can range from whole books, paragraphs or even sentences.

The work could come from lab results, art work, statistics etc and all of this is plagiarism and a serious offence. If you do use someones else work you should always put a reference to where that piece of work came from so that you cannot be prosecuted for it.

 

copyright

Copyright is a Act which was put in place in the year 1988. Copyrights protects the original work of authorship. When the copyright was put into place it meant people are not allowed to copy anything which has the copyright logo on it as it could mean you can get prosecuted for it. You can use people work if you put a reference to it or get permission to use it. Sometimes people infringe copyright by reproducing and distributing music or even books without asking permission to use it first. The law governing copyright in the UK is Copyright, Design and Patents Act (CDPA)  

Owenership

Ownership is where you are the original owner of a piece of work and anyone who wants access to that piece of work has to ask you, the owner to be aloud to have access to that work. If someone does copy without permission you can take them to court and they have to pay a fine for violating the law.

I.T effects on sustainability

There are issues that we as humans are using too much energy and what we use for energy is starting to run out. Geologists are now starting to look at other ways of getting energy, people are starting to use wind power as an alternative power source.

Pollution is not helping the planet it is causing global warming. The weather is getting warmer and making the ice and snow melt, making the sea rise.

Resources such as coal, oil and uranium are running short so taking the price of electricity up. There are other power sources such as hydro power which uses water or wind power created by wind turbines on wind farms.