Definition:the Internet is an world wide web that anyone can access pretty much anything.
Real world example:
Personal Opinion (why it's important): Well mostly the social networks are extremely helpful keeping up with people you don't see. also for finding information, as much as you want at a touch of a button.
Social effects
Definition: An imitative sound, as of thunder or an explosion, produced artificially for theatrical purposes, as for a film, play, or radio program. Often used in the plural.(from The free dictionary)
Real world example: in movies when an explosions to amke an section of movie more exciting and realistic.
Personal Opinion (why it's important): to make videos and videos more dramatic.
Computer Misuse Act
Definition:
The Computer Misuse Act (1990) recognized three new offenses:
- Unauthorized access to computer material
- Unauthorized access with intent to commit or facilitate a crime
- Unauthorized modification of computer material.
On 23 August David Lennon, the British teenager who in 2004 performed a Denial of Service attack on his former employer:
- pleaded guilty to breach of section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 ( computer misuse )
Copyright
Definition: "the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc." (from dictionary.com)
Real world example: Google busted for copyright breaches.
Paris court fines Google for copyright breaches
Personal Opinion (why it's important): so the creators of the whatever it was has control of what is theirs and who it is shared and copied to/with.Data Protection Act
Definition: A UK law guaranteeing rights to individuals in relation to personal data that others hold on them. For example, under the DPA, you have the right to see what data a company holds on you.
Real world example: Rochdale council has been found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act by losing an unencrypted memory stick containing the details of more than 18,000 residents. (data protection act)
Personal Opinion (why it's important): so people know there infromation is under protection and no peterfile or criminals can have for bad things.
Computer Crime
Definition:
unauthorized use of a computer for personal gain, as in the illegal transfer of funds or to alter the data or property of others.
Real world example: (computer crime)Personal Opinion (why it's important): because people do thing like cyber-bulling and that can affect people very badly
Piracy
Definition:
the state of being private; retirement or seclusion.
Real world example:Stephen Conroy accuses Google of biggest privacy breach in Western world
Personal Opinion (why it's important): everyone needs there privacy because people can do bad things with others privacy.Social Media
Definition:
Web sites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts: Many businesses are utilizing social media to generate sales.
Real world example: Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue (social media WIKI)Personal Opinion (why it's important): because as some girls say "i can live without Facebook" some times these sort of social medias can be really helpful to keep up with school friends and family ect
