Ethics and Security in the Digital Age Flashcards
What is Ethics?
making a principle-based choice
between competing alternatives, the choice is between right and wrong.
The PAPA Framework
P- Privacy
A- Accuracy
P- property
A- Accessibility
Privacy, concerns about personal privacy
When it comes to privacy in the digital age; the speed and ease of gathering personal information about another person has drastically increased. There is more personal information about a person available on the internet about a person than there ever was before the digital age.
accuracy, who is responsible for checking the accuracy of the information? and who should be held responsible for error?
- Data Quality and System Errors
this can cause serious hard to individuals an organizations as they are being fed inaccurate information - Critical Systems
accuracy, what are critical systems?
systems that can have a life threatening impact:
aircraft control systems
missile systems
medical systems
Property
Who owns the information, where can we access information?
- Intellectual Property
a product based on someone’s
knowledge, experience and education (reports, documents, music, art)
2.Copyright
a form of intellectual property legal protection, meaning someone can’t use your intellectual property without getting your permission
Channels and Net Neutrality
the principle that Internet service providers must treat all Internet communications equally
Accessibility
what information should we be allowed to access
- Security and Cybercrime
-information and data is in risk of being accessed by hackers, attacks (phishing), computer parts failing
-Data and programs that use customer data must be kept
secure
Distributed Denial of Service
(DDoS)
An attack where a firm’s computer systems are flooded
with requests sent via botnets and it slows or shuts the site.
Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart
Devices
increase of smart devices –> increase of security and privacy risks such as controlling smart devices remotely
Biometrics
The measurement of one of an individuals unique traits (making it more reliable than passwords):
physical: fingerprint, facescan, retinal scan
behavior: voice detection, signature
Multi-Factor Authentication
providing more than one item to prove authentication or credentials. This can include a password and a code sent via. email, or fingerprint, etc.
CAPTCHA
completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart
Accessibility and the Digital
Divide
Not everyone has equal opportunity when it comes to accessing the internet due to the digital divide. The digital divide refers to less fortunate regions/countries who are unable to access the same resources/internet. This leads to a big gap which some people are highly computer literate and others are not.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
four principles:
Perceivable- available to the senses
operable- users can interact
understandable- content is clear
robust- a wide range of technologies can access the content
