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Social and ethical issues pt2 - Coggle Diagram
Social and ethical issues pt2
Censorship: an act which results in the deliberate suppression of material either in the form of what can be published or accessed
Schools and businesses blocking social sites
Schools and businesses blocking illegal sites
Countries blocking media about conflict and political issues
technology
advances have led to technology which can monitor users eg smart watches - active monitoring where the user chooses to monitor their health etc
passive monitoring - cctv - over 2million in the uk some would argue that it provides passive security however some would argue its gone too far and that its an invasion of privacy
Forced tracking-technology used to forcibly monitor and track behaviour eg ankle monitor
Data
Data collected on individuals:
Travel plans
search histories
Gaming patterns
Online chats
shopping habits
Social media interactions
It is said that your name and birthday are held on at least 40+ different public and private databases
Data is being recorded on a day to day basis for example photo and text messages have-time and location recorded
Data mining
lots of this data is shared and accessible by businesses which then use the process of data mining to look at patterns in user activities
Fully automated process which looks at large sets of data and trys to identify patterns in order to predict something
commonly used by businesses as it makes it easier for them to access their target market and make more profit by predicting products a customer might want
Internet
Level of government censorship
balance between protecting the public and infringing on free speech - eg north korea
usually used more so in countries with dictatorships and communist states to prevent the public from seeing any messages contradicting the political ideology of the ruler