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Social, Legal & Ethical Aspects of Computing.

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Faizan-u-Rehman 57 Arbaz Mateen 66 Hafiz Sohaib 86 Kashif Razzaq 58 Tariq Ali 98

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ContentsSocial Computing.Legal & Ethical Aspects.Cyber Law.First Cyber Crime.Cyber Ethics.IP (Intellectual Property).Slander.Plagiarism.Copyright Law.NR3C.10 Notorious Cyber Crimes.

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Social Computing.

Social computing is an area of computer science that is concerned with the

intersection of social

behavior and

computational

systems. Social

computing is the

collaborative and

interactive aspect of online behavior.

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Legal and Ethical Aspects Of Computing.

Legal aspects of computing are related to the

overlapping areas of law and computing.

Computer Ethics is a system of moral standards

or moral values used as a guide line of computer

users.

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Privacy, Computer Crimes.

Privacy refers to the right of individuals and

companies to deny or restrict the collection and

use of information about them.

Computer Crime is any illegal acts involving

computers.

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Ethics.As a Guideline to computer user.Computer users are free to follow or ignore the code of ethics.Universal, can be applied to any

ware, all over the world. To produced ethical computer

users.Not follow ethics are

called immoral.

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Computer Law.As a Rule to control computer user.Computer users must follow the regulations and law.Depend on country where the crime is committed.To prevent misuse of computer.Not obeying law are

called crime.

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Cyber Law.Cyber Law: any laws relating to protect the internet and other online communication technologies.

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Cyber Law.

Why we need Cyber Law?Cyber law are made to force people to be good.To give protections against the misuse of computers

and computer criminal activities. Internet are being used every day by billions of people

around the globe.Growth rate in mobile and computer devices.Technology allows the user to bully from an unknown

location, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Example of Cyber abuse on the users:Sending a computer virus via E-Mail.Harassment through E-Mail or social media.Hacking into your School’s database to change your exam

results.Fake Accounts.

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Cyber Ethics.The most common problem isn’t hacking (illegally accessing web sites or other computers) or cracking. It’s the unauthorized downloading of games and software.

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Computer Crime.

Computer Fraud is the crime of obtaining money by

deceiving (to trick) people through the use of computer

such as E-Mail, program fraud, Investment schemes and

claim of expertise on certain fields.

Copying is a violation of the rights secured by a

copyright law. It occurs when you break the copyright laws

such as copying software or CD’s illegally.

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Computer Crime. (cont.)

Computer theft is defined as the unauthorized used of

another person’s property such as transfer of payment to

the wrong accounts, get online material with no cost and

tap into the data transmission lines.

Computer Attack is defined as any activities taken to

disrupt the equipment's of computers system, change

processing controls and corrupt stored data.

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Intellectual Property (IP).

Unique product of the human intellect that has commercial value.

e.g.

Books, Songs, Movies, Paintings, Formulas, Computers and programs etc.

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Intellectual Property Laws.

Intellectual Property

Patents

Trademark Design

Copyright

Patents for Inventions. Trademark for brand identity. Design for product appearance. Copyright for material.

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Privacy.

Way of making personal data more private.Install personal firewall.Purchases goods with cash, rather then credit card.Online public recode. Less use of Facebook.Avoid GPS tags in photo.

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Addiction.Internet Addiction.Social Media Addiction.

Facebook.Twitter.Google +.

Game addiction.General Computer

Addiction.

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Slander.Slander is the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.Can develop society that disregards on honesty and

truth.Can lead to bad

habits of spreading

rumors and untruth.Can cause people

to have negative

attitude towards

another person.

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Plagiarism. Plagiarism is copying someone else’s work and then

passing it off as one’s own. It is morally bad because it is

an act of stealing.

Copying programs written by other programmers and

claiming it as your own could be an act of plagiarism. It

involves laying, cheating, theft and dishonesty.

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Copyright Law.Copyright law are designed to protect the intellectual property of authors, artists, filmmakers, web designers etc. so that their own work isn’t stolen for someone else profit.

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Computer Viruses.Creation of worms and computer viruses is morally bad when it is intended for malicious purpose like to steal information or destroying of data.

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