Ethical and Legal Issues in IT Development and Use

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

This assessment is designed to demonstrate a student’s completion of the following Learning Outcomes:

·Compare the social and professional responsibilities of those involved in the management, development and use of IT, particularly the internet.

·Appraise ethical concerns associated with information privacy, accuracy and accessibility, and understand the role of the Data Protection Act/ GDPR 2018 (and associated legislation) in regulating these aspects both nationally and internationally.

a)You are a computer graduate about to start a job with the Cogito company, detail the ethical dilemmasthat you might encounter in the population with which you plan to work.

b)In your opinion, who should be held accountable for thissoftware(Cogito who develop it or MetLife who use it) and why?(20marks)1000 words

c)Discuss a solution to the legal and ethical issues that will derive from this software and the growing integration of AI in people’s business and personal daily lives.

‘Technology will play a ‘key’ role in the global pandemic response and there is ‘clear support’ for a contact-tracing app in the UK’. Create a press release highlighting your opinion (positive or negative. choose one) on the ‘privacy versus protection’ debate (i.e. the balance between the privacy needs of individuals and the benefit of the contact-tracing app to society). Provide an objective view of the ethical responsibilities of a contact-tracing application.

Use the template below as the basis for your press release.

·You must write something under every heading.

·The final document should be between 1 and 2 ‘A4’ pages long Below is the template for your press release. Please write something for each of theheadings. Heading?—?Title your press release in a way the reader (i.e. target audience) will understand. Sub-Heading?—?Describe who the story is for and how they benefit. Summary?—?Give a summary of your opinion on the topic. Assume the reader will not read anything else so make this paragraph good. Problem?—?Describe the situation.

Solution?—?Describe how you feel the research needs to be continued.                                            

Quote from You?—?A quote from a spokesperson in your company (you).

Closing and Call to Action?—?Wrap it up and give pointers to where the reader should go next.

All marks will be allocated according to the clarity and succinctness of your press release and how effectively it communicates your view on the topic.(40 marks)

·Part 1Case Study Questions

The collective three answers to these questions must be word-processed and no longer than 3000 words (+/- 10%). You are required to research the appropriate literature, legislation and cite suitable examples where relevant. Appropriate referencing must be used throughout; the 3000-word limit does not include your references.

·Planning and Research Support

Tutors and student coaches will be available to discuss answers to questions and the press release and suggest approaches and there will be time allocated for assignment support during the 4-week block.

·Marking and Assessment Criteria

Parts 1&2 are together worth 100% of the total assessment for this module. See the assessment criteria below for more detail.

which can be defined as using without acknowledgement another person’s words or ideas and submitting them for assessment as though it were one’s own work, for instance by copying, translating from one language to another or unacknowledged paraphrasing. Further examples include:

·Use of any quotation(s) from the published or unpublished work of other persons, whether published in textbooks, articles, the Web, or in any other format, which quotations have not been clearly identified as such by being placed in quotation marks and acknowledged.

·Use of another person’s words or ideas that have been slightly changed or paraphrased to make it look different from the original.

·Summarising another person’s ideas, judgments, diagrams, figures, or computer programmes without reference to that person in the text and the source in a bibliography or reference list.

·Use of services of essay banks and/or any other agencies.

·Use of unacknowledged material downloaded from the Internet.