1. Society Law and Ethics
Digital property rights and Technology Society
2. Ethical Issues with usage and Availability of Information
● Definition for Information : knowledge
● An information is a wealth that confers value or benefit to it’s owners
Example: patents, financial assets
● When there is more access to these informations ethical issues rise up with
the usage of these informations.
● Assets in the digital world include our own data, information that we store on
our system, social media information.
3. Digital property rights
● Any information about you or
created by you is that exists in
digital form is called as Digital
property
● The owner of the digital property
has got all the sole rights to decide
or use his assets as per his/her
wish
4. Threats in Digital Properties
Digital penetration tools : Penetration testing tools are software
applications used to check for security threats
In modern world we use digital property mostly without buying the usage rights
and license. Many tools can be used to break into or gather information about
the digital property and some times can give unauthorized access to these
information.
Example: Burpsuite
5. Stealing code of digital properties :
Some developers use these penetration tools to get hold of
the source code and make plagiarized versions of it and use
it for their personal gains.
These source codes are also sold in the outer market which is
leads to various other issues for the property.
6. Digital Property Rights Protection
Anti-Temper solutions : Anti temper ensure that the digital
property cannot be tampered and it keeps safe from the hands
of hackers who are trying to steal the information
These are advanced technologies like rootkits, backdoors, and
security monitoring devices.
7. Legal clauses : legal clause is a
particular part of a written legal
document, a transparent clause must
be included in every digital
property and in the software “terms
of service” to prohibit people from
scraping the source codes.