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Legal, Ethical, and Societal

Issues
Learning Objectives
Learners will be able to...
• Discuss current issues related to copyright
in relation to actions of government and
private sectors, including but not limited to
Cybercrime Law RA10175.
• Explain actions to promote ethical use of
media and information.
Republic Act
No.10175
Republic Act No. 10175
-Or the Cybercrime
Prevention Act of 2012
-is a law in the Philippines
approved on September 12,
2012 which aims to address
legal issues concerning
online interactions and the
Internet
Republic Act No. 10175
•Among the cybercrime
offenses included in the bill
are cyber squatting ,cybersex,
child pornography, identity
theft, illegal access to data
and libel.
So what is
Cyber?
CYBER means…
•relating to, or
involving computers
or computer
networks (such as
the Internet)
Cyberspace
Cyberspace
•refers to the virtual
computer world, and more
specifically, is an electronic
medium used to form a
global computer network to
facilitate online
communication
Cybercrime
Cybercrime
•refers to the criminal
activities carried out by
means of computers or the
Internet
Hacking
Hacking
- refers to the practice of
modifying or altering
computer software and
hardware to accomplish a
goal that is considered to
be outside of the creator's
original objective.
Hacking
Those individuals
who engage in
computer hacking
activities are
typically referred to
as “hackers”.
Phishing
Phishing
•is the attempt to obtain
sensitive information such as
usernames, passwords, and
credit card details (and,
indirectly, money), often for
malicious reasons, by
disguising as a trustworthy
entity in an electronic
communication.
Illegal
Downloading
Illegal Downloading
- refers to obtaining
files that you do no
t have the right to
use from the Intern
et.
Illegal Downloading Legal Downloading
Sites Sites

The Pirate Bay iTunes

Kickass.to Yahoo Music

TorrentDownloads.me Amazon

YTS.ag Netflix

RARBG.to Ruckus
Digital
Piracy
Digital Piracy
- the practice of
illegally copying
and selling digital
music, video,
computer
software, etc.
Identity
Theft
Identity Theft
- is the deliberate use of
someone else's identity,
usually as a method to gain a
financial advantage or obtain
credit and other benefits in
the other person's name, and
perhaps to the other person's
disadvantage or loss
Cyber
Defamation
Cyber Defamation
- is an unprivileged
false statement of
fact which tends to
harm the reputation
of a person or
company
2 Types of
Defamation:
1.Libel - written
2.Slander - verbal
Cybersex
CYBERSEX
•also called computer sex,
Internet sex, netsex
•is a virtual sex encounter in
which two or more people
(connected remotely via
internet) send each other
sexually explicit contents or
sexually explicit acts
Child
Pornography
Child Pornography
- is a form of child
sexual
exploitation
Cybersquatting
CYBERSQUATTING
•is registering, trafficking
in, or using an Internet
domain name with bad
faith intent to profit from
the goodwill of a
trademark belonging to
someone else.
CYBERBULLYING
Cyberbullying
- the use of electronic
communication to bully a
person, typically by
sending messages of an
intimidating or
threatening nature
OPYRIGHT
COPYRIGHT
•a legal device that
gives the creator of a
literary, artistic,
musical, or other
creative work the sole
right to publish and sell
that work.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright owners have
the right to control the
reproduction of their
work, including the right
to receive payment for
that reproduction.
Violation of a
copyright is
called
infringement.
PLAGIARISM
PLAGIARISM

an act or instance of using
or closely imitating the
language and thoughts of
another author without
authorization; the
representation of that author's
work as one's own, as by not
crediting the original author
COMPUTER
ADDICTION
Computer Addiction
- the excessive use of
computers to the extent that it
interferes with daily life. This
excessive use may for
example interfere with work or
sleep, result in problems with
social interaction, or affect
mood, relationships and
thought processes.
DIGITAL DIVIDE
Digital Divide
- an economic inequality between
groups in terms of access to, use o
f, or knowledge of ICT. The divide
within countries can refer to inequ
alities between individuals, house
holds, businesses, and geographi
c areas at different socioeconomic
(and other demogra
phic) levels.
FAIR USE
FAIR USE
•is a legal concept that allows the
reproduction of copyrighted material
for certain purposes without
obtaining permission and without
paying a fee. Purposes permitting
the application of fair use generally
include review, news reporting,
teaching, or scholarly research.
VIRTUAL SELF
Virtual Self
- The persona
you create about
yourself virtually
NETIQUETTE
Netiquette
•the correct or ac
ceptable way of c
ommunicating o
n the Internet.
Do not say or do
online, what you
would not do or
say offline.
Thank you for listening!
SEAT WORK

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