What Is Privacy?

-Privacy in ICT refers to data and information.
-Data refers ti a collection of raw unprocessed facts, figures and symbols. Then, computer is used to process data into information. In general, data include texts, numbers, sounds, images and video.
-Information privacy is described as the rights of individuals and companies to deny or restrict the collection and use of information about them.

Ways Computer Technology Treaten Our Privacy
►Cookies.
►Electric Profile.
►Spyware.

Why Do We Need Privacy
►We need privacy for anonymity. For example, the internet creates an elaborate trail of data detailing a person surfing on the web because all want our trail to be detected.
►We also need privacy for confidentally.

Privacy Can Be Protected By :
►Privacy Law
"The privacy laws in Malaysia Emphasis of the following."
-Security services to review the security policy.
-Security menagement to protect the resources.
-Security mechanism to implement the required security services.
-Security objects, the important entities within the system environment.

►Utilities Software
-Example : Anti-Spam Program, Firewall, Anti-Spyware, And Antivirus.

IP - Intellectual Property

*Intelellectual property(IP) refers to work created by investors, authors and artists.

Summary:

Types Of Intellectual Property (IP).

-Patents of inventions.
-Trademarks for brand identity.
-Copyright for material.
-Design for product appereance.

-►Intellectual property rights are rights to whick creators are entitled to for inventions, writing and works of art.

-►Intellectual property laws cover ideas, inventions, literary creations, unique names, business models, industrial processes and computer program codes from being manipulated by people other than the owner.

Ethics

►Ethics refers tp a standard of moral guideline that is used to determined proper behaviour.

►There are two codes of conducts that can be referred to which are the ten commandents of computer ethics by the United States Institute of Computer Ethics and the e-mails and internet guidelines by the Department of Public Services of Malaysia.

►Unethical computer code of conducts include modifying certain information on the internet, affecting the accuracy of the information, selling information to other parties without that owner's permissions, using authorisation, involvement in stealing software and invasion of privacy.

►Ethical computer code of conducts include sending warning about viruses to other computer users, asking permission before sending any businness advertisement to others and using information with authorisation.

The Impact Of ICT On Society

The Impact Of ICT On Society
►Paperless environment
►Speed
►Borderless
►Sharing
►Health Problems
►Reliability
►Social Problems
►Cost

GIGO
Is a short form for Garbage In Garbage Out. It refers to the quality or output produced according to the input. Normally bad input produces bad output.

Speed
Information travels faster like sending e-mail to friends or businness partner.

Health Problems
Information is stoped systemmatically and can be retrieved at any time.

Paperless Environment
Information is stored systematically and can be retrieved at any time.

Globalisation
Borderless Communication.

Social Problems
People are interested to communicate through online chatting rather than having real time conservation.