1. Legal and Ethical Responsibilities

2. Social Protocols What does the word Protocol mean?
“Network professionals and users of networks have legal and ethical responsibilities with respect to social protocols and the ownership of data and information.”
Computing, VCE Units 1 & 2, Lawson, Keane, Kelly, Potts & Sullivan (Page 122)
What does the word Protocol mean?

3. Social Protocol
Is a set of rules or behaviours that are used and considered appropriate for online environments.
Examples include:
Appropriate behaviour when communicating
Ownership of intellectual property
How information is stored and kept secure

4. Legal and Ethical Responsibilities
What is the difference between Legal and Ethical?

5. Legal Responsibilities
Is when a person is held accountable under LAW.
Breaching a law or legal responsibility could result in legal consequences, such as fines, charges, jail time.
Online Legal Concerns in terms of Communication and Storage of information are:
Copyright
Privacy
What are these relating to?

6. Case Study:
The Children’s Singing and Dancing Academy is an organisation that runs singing, dancing and acting classes specifically aimed at school-aged children. The company offers classes after school on most weeknights and on weekends in various locations around Melbourne. Children from many suburbs participate in this extracurricular activity. The company is a not-for-profit organisation set up specifically to broaden children’s interest in the performing arts. The academy has a webpage and advertises its classes and locations through this medium. Pictures taken of students during their end-of-semester performances re used for advertising the company. The company relies on technology usage by creating brochures, updating their webpage and storing of clients’ data. Although the data stored is primarily about the children, data on the parents/guardians of the children is also stored.
What particular data on children/parents is stored at the Children's’ Singing and dancing Academy.
Why does the company need to store data on their clients?
What does the Children's’ Singing and dancing Academy need to do to ensure they are compliant with the Privacy Act 1988?
Given that the Children's’ Singing and dancing Academy. as a performance at the end of each semester, how do copyright laws affect the company?
What measure are needed to protect the integrity of data and information?

7. Consequences of and privacy violation
Breaches of privacy
Loss of intellectual property (Copyright)
Plagiarism
Loss of income due to unavailability of information and services
Others?

8. Ethical Responsibilities
Being morally correct or proper according to accepted standards of social or professional behaviour.
Actions may be legal but not ethical.
Online Ethical Concerns are (at least – there are many!)
Use or storage of Inappropriate Material
Defamatory Comments
Inappropriate Language or Communication

9. Sample Ethical Problem
Black Mirror Episode “Nose Dive”
Very similar to Facebook or Instagram, where people get “likes” or a rating.
This rating though is very important as it determines:
What type of job you can apply for
Where you live
Being able to take a flight requires you have a certain rating

10. Sample Ethical dilemma
A programmer knows there is a bug in a piece of software they are working on. This will impact on the accuracy of the software’s data manipulation. Due to strict deadlines the manager tells the programmer to ignore the bug as it is more important to deliver the package on time. Does the programmer have a greater obligation to the employer or client?

11. Social Tensions
Tensions can arise if ethical or legal responsibilities are not clearly outlined.
This could be between stakeholders
What are stakeholders?

12. Resolving Legal, Ethical and Social Tensions
6 Steps:
Identify the Problem.
Identify the Stakeholders.
Identify possible alternatives. What options are available? What are the consequences?
Identify Ethical Standards. Are there also any Laws to be followed?
Evaluate options. Identify strengths and weaknesses. Which decision will cause least harm and can it be reversed?
Make a Decision. Justify.

13. Lastly, Risks associated with using a network.
Explain why each is a risk:
Breaches of security
User Dependence
Social Networks

14. Breaches of Security
We discussed the 3 different types of threats to data and information!
Deliberate and
Accidental
What were they?
…. And Event Based (all though this is more to do with loss of data than a security breach)

15. Viruses/Malware
Hackers
Valuable information being accessed, stolen, damaged or deliberately altered for fraudulent purposes
Wireless networks without any suitable encryption

16. User Dependence
A file server develops a fault, a user may not be able to access their work or shared programs.
This impacts on productivity and the effectiveness of both a work and a business.

17. Social Networks Distractions! Too reliant on unverified information.
Face to face communication reduced
Language skills reduced
Ownership of material and copyright issues
Sensitive data revealed

18. Security Procedures

19. Communication For Communication:
Well documented processes for communicating sensitive information
Password protection
Policies

20. Storage For Storage of data and information:
File-name conventions (to avoid time wasting mainly!). Things such as (date stamp, version, name)
Backups
Backup timeline
Location of backup files
Archiving (copying to long term storage)

21. Disposal For disposal of data and information Destruction (deletion)
Disposal (files and equipment) – companies must decide on the best method of disposal of sensitive information, when hardware are upgraded and old hardware needs to be disposed of.