Legal, Moral, Cultural and Ethical Issues | OCR A-Level Computer Science (H446)
Legal, Moral, Cultural and Ethical Issues
- 73 questions
- 7 subtopics
- Component 01: Computer systems
- Component 01
Legal, Moral, Cultural and Ethical Issues is examined on component 01 of OCR Computer Science, Computer systems.
73 recall questions across 7 subtopics.
Sample questions from Legal, Moral, Cultural and Ethical Issues
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
The 7 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Computing related legislation: Data Protection Act 1998 | Recall questions on the Data Protection Act 1998, its eight principles, data subjects, controllers and processors, subject access requests, sensitive personal data, exemptions, breach scenarios, enforcement by the Information Commissioner, automated decisions and its repeal. | 11 |
| Computing related legislation: Computer Misuse Act 1990 | Recall questions on the Computer Misuse Act 1990, why it was needed, its offences of unauthorised access, access with intent and impairing a computer, exceeding authorised access, penetration testing, hacking tools, ransomware and proving intent. | 10 |
| Computing related legislation: Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 | Recall questions on the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, what it protects and for how long, moral rights, copyright compared with patents and trade marks, permitted acts for software, licences, copying public code, and civil and criminal infringement. | 8 |
| Computing related legislation: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 | Recall questions on the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, content and communications data, notices to disclose encryption keys, safeguards and scope creep, workplace interception, and applying the four main computing Acts to scenarios. | 9 |
| Moral and ethical issues: computers in the workforce, automated decision making and artificial intelligence | Recall questions on arguments about computers destroying or creating jobs, job polarisation, automating a warehouse, automated decision making and its objections, the COMPAS and 2020 grading cases, and the benefits, risks and responsibility of artificial intelligence. | 10 |
| Moral and ethical issues: environmental effects, censorship, monitoring behaviour and analysing personal information | Recall questions on the environmental costs and benefits of computing, replacing school laptops, internet censorship and filtering, monitoring behaviour at work and elsewhere, and analysing personal information, re-identification, filter bubbles and loyalty card data. | 13 |
| Moral and ethical issues: piracy, offensive communications, layout, colour and character sets | Recall questions on digital piracy and its harm, laws on offensive online communications and real-name policies, accessible screen layout, internationalising interfaces, colour models, colour vision deficiency and cultural colour meanings, ASCII and Unicode, and encoding bugs. | 12 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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