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BBC BiteSize Risks and Implications of ICT

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BBC BiteSize Risks and Implications of ICT

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BBC Bitesize - GCSE ICT - Risks and implications of ICT

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GCSE ICT Risks and implications of ICT learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers.

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During the second half of the 20th century, businesses, organisations and the government began using computers to store information about their customers, clients and staff in databases. For example:

Databases are easily accessed, searched and edited. It's also far easier to cross reference information stored in two or more databases than if the records were paper-based. The computers on which databases resided were often networked. This allowed for organisation-wide access to databases and offered an easy way to share information with other organisations.

Misuse and unauthorised access to information

With more and more organisations using computers to store and process personal information there was a danger the information could be misused or get into the wrong hands. A number of concerns arose:

Who could access this information?

How accurate was the information?

Could it be easily copied?

Was it possible to store information about a person without the individual's knowledge or permission?

Was a record kept of any changes made to information?

The purpose of the Data Protection Act

The 1998 Data Protection Act was passed by Parliament to control the way information is handled and to give legal rights to people who have information stored about them.

Other European Union countries have passed similar laws as often information is held in more than one country.

BBC Webwise features a guide on how the Data Protection Act works .

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BBC Bitesize - GCSE ICT - Data Protection Act - Revision 1

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During the second half of the 20th century, businesses, organisations and the government began using computers to store information about their customers, clients and staff in databases. For example: Databases are easily accessed, searched and edited. It's also far easier to cross reference information stored in two or more databases than if the records were paper-based.

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Hacking is where an unauthorised person uses a , internet or connection to gain access past security passwords or other security to see data stored on another computer. Hackers sometimes use software hacking tools and often target, for example, particular sites on the internet.

Data misuse and unauthorised transfer or copying

Copying and illegal transfer of data is very quick and easy using online computers and large storage devices such as , and . Personal data, company research and written work, such as novels and textbooks, cannot be copied without the copyright holder's permission.

Copying and distributing copyrighted software, music and film

This includes copying music and movies with computer equipment and distributing it on the internet without the holder's permission. This is a widespread misuse of both computers and the internet that breaks copyright regulations.

Email and chat room abuses

Internet services such as and have been the subject of many well-publicised cases of impersonation and deception where people who are online pretend to have a different identity. Chat rooms have been used to spread rumours about well known personalities. A growing area of abuse of the internet is email spam, where millions of emails are sent to advertise both legal and illegal products and services.

Pornography

A lot of indecent material and pornography is available through the internet and can be stored in electronic form. There have been several cases of material, which is classified as illegal, or which shows illegal acts, being found stored on computers followed by prosecutions for possession of the material.

Identity and financial abuses

This topic includes misuse of stolen or fictional credit card numbers to obtain goods or services on the internet, and use of computers in financial frauds. These can range from complex well thought out deceptions to simple uses such as printing counterfeit money with colour printers.

are relatively simple written by people and designed to cause nuisance or damage to computers or their files.

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BBC Bitesize - GCSE ICT - Computer Misuse Act - Revision 1

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Hacking is where an unauthorised person uses a , internet or connection to gain access past security passwords or other security to see data stored on another computer. Hackers sometimes use software hacking tools and often target, for example, particular sites on the internet.

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BBC Bitesize - GCSE ICT - ICT copyright - Revision 1

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YouTube Good Posture whilst using computers

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YouTube Good Posture whilst using computers

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Teach ICT - GCSE ICT - health and safety

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Top quality Computer Science resources for KS3, KS4, KS5

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Data Protection - 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 - link below

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Teach ICT - GCSE ICT - Computer Misuse Act

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Top quality Computer Science resources for KS3, KS4, KS5