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Ethical, legal, cultural and environmental impact

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Tick (✓) one box on each row to identify the legislation that covers each of the given events.

EventData Protection Act (2018)Computer Misuse Act (1990)Copyright Designs and Patents Act (1988)
A smart-lock manufacturer stores customer PIN codes in plaintext on an unsecured public cloud server, leading to a public data leak.
A research student downloads a cracked version of commercial CAD software to design a drone prototype without purchasing a license.
A disgruntled former employee uses retained administrative credentials to log in and delete patient records from a private clinic's database.
An online fashion brand tracks users' precise locations via their mobile app and sells this data to advertisers without obtaining explicit consent.
An individual writes a script to launch a brute-force password guessing attack against a school's virtual learning environment portal.
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Ethical, legal, cultural and environmental impact Questions

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22 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Computer Science Ethical, legal, cultural and environmental impact. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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