WEEK TWELVE SUMMARY

LECTURE SUMMARY:

SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES:
(Protecting yourself and your PC on the world wide web)

Who Is Watching You:

Identity Theft
People who have email accounts and myspace accounts often make the serious mistake of putting all their personal information on the internet such as their full name and address so it is easy for people steal their identities.

Problems On The Internet
The internet is a place where there are no securirty measures so anyone can write what they want on the internet and anyone can look at what other people have written on thee internet. For these reasons it is up to the people p[osting personal information to exercise caution over what they are writing about themselves and to not get too serious.

SUMMARY:

This week 12 lecture has helped me understand a lot about the social and ethical issues iinvolved with the internet.

TUTORIAL ACTIVITY ONE:

Australian Copyright Council:

Findings from logging on to five websites:

When I logged on to this site the first link I looked at was the information about copyright link. This link is very important to me because when I begin my university degree being able to reference other people's work and not plagiarise will be ctucial.

The other link I looked at was the what we do link. As an undergraduate it is important to know all I can about the organisations who deal with plagiarism and copyright.

TUTORIAL ACTIVITY TWO:

What You Need To Know About Music on the Web:

This site explained the common misconceptions people have when it comes to music and the web.
The biggest misconception is people believing they can download music for free. This is not the case, you have to pay when you want to downkoad songs, it isn't free.

TUTORIAL ACTIVITY THREE:

Plan To Protect Against Attacks On Privacy And Security:

1.Pist very little information about yourself on your personal webpages. Don't mention your real name, birthdate or address only supply the bare minimum
2.Don't post any information about your financial situation on the net
3.Don't post information about any cards or bank accounts that you hold.

SUMMARY:

These three tutorial activities have helped me realise hoe important it is to protect ny personal details whilst I am on the Internet.

READING ONE:

Top 12 Ways To Protect Your Oblibe Privacy:

There are 12 very important measures you can take to improve your online privacy. Three of these measures include:

-Do not reveal personal information
-Turn on cookies in your web browser
-Keep a clean email address,

SUMMARY:

Searching this webdite has given me a clear understanding of the top 12 ways to protect your privaqcy.

READING TWO:

Ethics Ib Computing:

There are many different types of security monitoring located on the computer. Some of these include:Workplace privacy and employe monitoring, CNN career monitoring and technological sewrvalence.

SUMMARY:

This reading has opened me uyp to all the different monitoring types available and how important they are.

READING THREE:

Brown And Michaels Overview of Intellectual Property:

This website talked about how best to protect your personal infornation from identity thieves.

SUMMARY:

This website was very indormative and I will go back to it for informatioin in the future.