Ethics

• The 1980s was when people slowly started using PCs
• During the 1990s was the time when people used 3 to 4 computers at once to search the web for example they used one for 
• Looking at the Web page
• To retrieve web pages
• And more to pass information over the internet

Nowadays however we use one computer that most of the time does the work of 20 or more different computers

• Robots can do jobs such as Accountants, Legal Referres and cleaners which are aleady being replaced for humans

• The UK has lost arounf 30,000 jobs in the legal profession due to this and its estimated by 2018 that there will be 35million robots at work

• There are around 165,000 healthcare apps for smartphones

•  By 2017 they will have be downloaded an estimated total of 1.7 billion times.

Advantages of Clothing Stores 

• Customers can try on clothes, shoes, etc. and check the fit and feel of the item 

• They have the item to wear the same night

Disadvantages of Clothing Stores

• Employees spend time restocking shelves, so less time to attend to customers  

• It is hard to predict which items will sell and which will have to be marked down at the end of the season

• Every time you log on to a web site, data about your visit may be collected and stored  

• Every time you use your phone to make a call, data about the number you called, the time and date you called, and the duration of your call, may be collected and stored.

• Governments and security organisations collect billions of records each month containing metadata about every electronic communication made by its citizens

Small files called cookies are used by commercial organisations:

• to recognise your computer when you visit the website 

• to personalise the website for you, including targeting advertisements which may be of particular interest to you

• to track you as you navigate the website,and to enable e-commerce facilities 

• to improve the website's usability 

• to analyse the use of the website  

• in the administration of the website

•The Data Protection Act 1998 •Computer Misuse Act 1990 •Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 •Creative Commons Licence •Freedom of Information Act 2000