Griup No,6

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2. Social, Legal & Ethical
Aspects of Computing.
Group # 6
 Faizan-u-Rehman 57
 Arbaz Mateen 66
 Hafiz Sohaib 86
 Kashif Razzaq 58
 Tariq Ali 98
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3. Contents
Social Computing.
Legal & Ethical Aspects.
Cyber Law.
First Cyber Crime.
Cyber Ethics.
IP (Intellectual Property).
Slander.
Plagiarism.
Copyright Law.
NR3C.
10 Notorious Cyber Crimes.
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4. Social Computing.
Social computing is an area of computer science
that is concerned with the
intersection of social
behavior and
computational
systems. Social
computing is the
collaborative and
interactive aspect of online behavior.
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5. Legal and Ethical Aspects
Of Computing.
 Legal aspects of computing are related to the
overlapping areas of law and computing.
 Computer Ethics is a system of moral standards
or moral values used as a guide line of computer
users.
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6. Privacy, Computer Crimes.
Privacy refers to the right of individuals and
companies to deny or restrict the collection and
use of information about them.
Computer Crime is any illegal acts involving
computers.
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7. Ethics.
As a Guideline to computer user.
Computer users are free to follow or ignore the code of ethics.
Universal, can be applied to any
ware, all over the world.
To produced ethical computer
users.
Not follow ethics are
called immoral.
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8. Computer Law.
As a Rule to control computer user.
Computer users must follow the regulations and law.
Depend on country where the crime is committed.
To prevent misuse of computer.
Not obeying law are
called crime.
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9. Cyber Law.
Cyber Law: any laws relating to protect the internet and
other online communication technologies.
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10. Cyber Law.
Why we need Cyber Law?
Cyber law are made to force people to be good.
To give protections against the misuse of computers and
computer criminal activities.
Internet are being used every day by billions of people
around the globe.
Growth rate in mobile and computer devices.
Technology allows the user to bully from an unknown
location, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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11. Example of Cyber abuse on the users:
Sending a computer virus via E-Mail.
Harassment through E-Mail or social media.
Hacking into your School’s database to change your exam
results.
Fake Accounts.
Cyber Law.
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12. Cyber Ethics.
The most common problem isn’t hacking (illegally accessing
web sites or other computers) or cracking. It’s the unauthorized
downloading of games and software.
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13. Computer Crime.
Computer Fraud is the crime of obtaining money by
deceiving (to trick) people through the use of computer
such as E-Mail, program fraud, Investment schemes and
claim of expertise on certain fields.
Copying is a violation of the rights secured by a
copyright law. It occurs when you break the copyright laws
such as copying software or CD’s illegally.
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14. Computer Crime. (cont.)
Computer theft is defined as the unauthorized used of
another person’s property such as transfer of payment to
the wrong accounts, get online material with no cost and
tap into the data transmission lines.
Computer Attack is defined as any activities taken to
disrupt the equipment's of computers system, change
processing controls and corrupt stored data.
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15. Intellectual Property (IP).
Unique product of the human intellect that has
commercial value.
e.g.
Books, Songs, Movies, Paintings,
Formulas, Computers and programs
etc.
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16. Intellectual Property Laws.
Intellectual
Property
Patents
Trademark Design
Copyright
 Patents for Inventions.
 Trademark for brand identity.
 Design for product appearance.
 Copyright for material.
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17. Privacy.
Way of making personal data more private.
Install personal firewall.
Purchases goods with cash, rather then credit card.
Online public recode.
 Less use of Facebook.
Avoid GPS tags in photo.
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18. Addiction.
Internet Addiction.
Social Media Addiction.
Facebook.
Twitter.
Google +.
Game addiction.
General Computer
Addiction.
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19. Slander.
Slander is the action or crime of making a false
spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
Can develop society that disregards on honesty and
truth.
Can lead to bad
habits of spreading
rumors and untruth.
Can cause people
to have negative
attitude towards
another person.
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20. Plagiarism.
Plagiarism is copying someone else’s work and then
passing it off as one’s own. It is morally bad because it is
an act of stealing.
Copying programs written by other programmers and
claiming it as your own could be an act of plagiarism. It
involves laying, cheating, theft and dishonesty.
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21. Copyright Law.
Copyright law are designed to protect the intellectual
property of authors, artists, filmmakers, web designers
etc. so that their own work isn’t stolen for someone else
profit.
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22. Computer Viruses.
Creation of worms and computer viruses is morally
bad when it is intended for malicious purpose like to
steal information or destroying of data.
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23. Thank you 
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