Advanced Higher Computing Science Legal, Ethical, Environmental, Economic and Social Implications

This booklet (16 pages) is the seventh in a series of seven booklets. It teaches students the legal, ethical, environmental, economic and social implications of ICT required for the Advanced Higher Computing Science exam.

This booklet covers:
Intellectual Property Rights, patent
Storage of user data
Increasing use and power of intelligent systems
Energy (data centres, low carbon equipment)
Online marketing (web, e-mail, text)
Analytics
Cyber security, risks and precautions
Tracking, privacy, online safety
Social media
Implications of “big data”
The booklet includes two exercises of exam style questions to which answers are included as a separate file.

This booklet was written for the Scottish Advanced Higher Computer Science course but could be used as part of any advanced programming course covering these legal, ethical, environmental, economic and social implications of ICT.

This is the last of 7 booklets which cover the complete exam syllabus.