1.8 Legal and Ethical issues

What is a stake holder: 

Someone who is involved with the issue or problem or company in question. 

What is a moral:

Behaving in a way that someone would consider correct and honest. 

What does ethical mean:

The accordance of principles of conduct that are considered correct, especially those of a given profession.

Environmental impacts:

Negative:

Uses energy to function, when they are disposed of they are often disposed of badly.

Posative:

Improved and helped manufacturing, engineering, surgery, medicine etc...

E-waste:

Is discarded eletronical devices or parts of the devices such as CPUs that can contain potentially harmful parts that affect the environment or people and animals. 

Cultural: 

Different countries have different views on things for example: 

languages, character sets, colours, use of social media. 

Legal issues: 

Need to know these acts and legislation:

• Data protection act 1998
• Computer misuse act 1990 
• Copyright designs and patents act 1988
• Creative commons licensing
• Freedom of information act 2000
• GDPR (DPA)

Computer misuse act 1990:

Made three new…