File Management and Protection/Ethical Issues
File Management and Protection
Basic skills on how to manage and protect data using a computer in the workplace or at home.
An OP Online course from the National Certificate in Computing (Level 2) programme.
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| Ethical Issues | Introduction | Individual privacy | Corporate confidentiality | Copyright | Piracy | Email ethics | Objectionable material | Key points | Assessment |
Ethical Issues
Welcome to Unit 4: Ethical Issues. This unit will provide you with the necessary knowledge of ethical issues in relation to the management of files on your computer.
On completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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It is also about ensuring copyright and preventing piracy, or, looking at it from the other point of view, it is about not abusing copyright and piracy.
Email ethics are becoming more and more important. Ethical behaviour covers not sending out, or receiving in, emails with questionable content especially from a company computer system; not using a company computer system to send and receive personal communications; and not putting a company computer system at risk by opening attachments that have not been scanned.
The NZ Computer Society produces guidelines for sound ethical behaviour within the computer industry. These guidelines are based upon the principles of:
- interests of the community
- respect for the individual
- interests of the client
and supported by the values of:
- competence
- truth
- social justice
- ethical behaviour.
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