Pearson BTEC National IT (AAQ)

Issues: revision quiz and key terms

Free practice for Issues in Pearson BTEC National IT (AAQ). It covers: moral and ethical issues of IT use (privacy, environmental impact, unequal access) and the legal frameworks governing IT systems and data. Try the questions, then check the key terms.

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Question 1 · Multiple choice

Which is a benefit of employee monitoring for an organisation?

Question 2 · True or false?

Employees should be told if their employer monitors their emails and internet use.

Question 3 · Multiple choice

Which law lets the security services intercept communications under a warrant approved by a Judicial Commissioner?

Question 4 · True or false?

E-waste is safe to put in landfill because electronic components do not break down.

Question 5 · Multiple choice

A rural village has very slow broadband because it is far from the nearest telephone exchange. Which cause of the digital divide is this?

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Key terms for Issues

Accessibility: Designing technology so that it can be used by people with disabilities or impairments.
Creative Commons: A set of free licences letting creators choose how others may reuse their work, e.g. with credit or only non-commercially.
Doxxing: Publishing a person's private details, such as their address, online without their consent.
Freedom of Information Act 2000: Gives the public a right to request recorded information held by public authorities.
Globalisation: The growing interconnection of economies and cultures around the world, helped by communications technology.
Planned obsolescence: Designing products with a limited life so that customers have to replace them.
Right to erasure: An individual's right to have personal information deleted in certain circumstances, also called the right to be forgotten.
UK GDPR: The UK's version of the EU regulation setting the principles and rights for processing personal information.

What Issues covers

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F1 Moral and Ethical Issues: Privacy and the use of personal data, the environmental impact of IT, the digital divide, accessibility and inclusivity, online behaviour, globalisation, employee monitoring, and freedom of expression versus censorship.
F2 Legal Issues: The Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR, the Computer Misuse Act 1990, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and software licensing, the Equality Act 2010, the Freedom of Information Act 2000, RIPA and the Investigatory Powers Act, PECR, and health and safety for computer users.

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