Legal Issues in Applied Technology

1. Legal Issues
Alyssa Singleterry

2. Background
 Technology has caused legal and ethical issues such as personal
privacy. Not all uses of technology are appropriate. Legal and
ethical uses of technology are complex in this society.

3. Objectives
 Describe privacy
 Explain copyright
 Explain netiquette
 Describe bullying
 Explain gender and technology
 Explain fair use
 Describe the social economic and technology

4. Privacy
 Websites collect personal data
 No permission from users
 Legal because users provide the data

5. Copyright
 Easy and unavoidable
 Constant battle of software piracy copyright holders to exert
control over intellectual property

6. Netiquette
 Appropriate for the internet
 Net-internet
 Etiquette-good behavior
 Poor choices of netiquette can lead to concequences

7. Cyber Bullying
 Social network bullying
 Bullying through text
 Wider audience, can be done at anytime, invasive
 Faster growing bullying among teens

8. Gender
 Use internet differently
 Men use video game
 Women chat and email

9. FairUse
 United States copyright law
 Allows limited use of copyrighted material
 No permission for the right holders
 Purpose, nature, amount, effect

10. Social
Economic
 Poverty does not get the same technological resources as many
others
 They fall behind
 Technology can tend to be expensive