1.5 Legal, Moral, Cultural and Ethical Issues: revision quiz and key terms
Free practice for 1.5 Legal, Moral, Cultural and Ethical Issues in OCR A Level Computer Science (H446). It has 2 parts: 1.5.1 Computing-Related Legislation and 1.5.2 Moral and Ethical Issues. Try the questions, then check the key terms.
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Which statement about deepfakes is correct?
Open-source software lets users view and change its source code.
Under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, which offence is committed by someone who guesses a colleague's password and reads their emails?
The digital divide only affects people in other countries, not the UK.
Which Act regulates the interception of communications and the use of surveillance by public bodies in the UK?
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Key terms for 1.5 Legal, Moral, Cultural and Ethical Issues
- Accessibility
- Designing systems so that people with disabilities can use them, e.g. with screen readers or captions.
- Computer Misuse Act 1990
- UK law that makes unauthorised access to, and modification of, computer material an offence.
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
- UK law that protects creators' work, such as software and music, from being copied without permission.
- Data Protection Act 2018
- UK law that controls how personal data is collected, stored and processed.
- Digital divide
- The gap between people who have good access to digital technology and those who do not.
- Personal data
- Information that relates to an identifiable living person.
- Targeted advertising
- Showing adverts chosen using a person's browsing history, location or other personal data.
- Unauthorised access
- Using a computer system or files without permission, e.g. logging in with someone else's password.
What 1.5 Legal, Moral, Cultural and Ethical Issues covers
In RADevo this topic has a full topic test and a focused quiz for each part:
- 1.5.1 Computing-Related Legislation
- 1.5.2 Moral and Ethical Issues: Automated decisions, AI, the workforce, the environment, censorship, monitoring, privacy, piracy and cultural issues.
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