Monday, October 13, 2008

Digital law


  • Digital Law: electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
    Digital law deals with the ethics of technology. Unethical use manifests itself in form of theft and/or crime. Ethical use manifests itself in the form of abiding by the laws of society. Users need to understand that stealing or cause damage to other people’s work, identity, or property online is a crime. There are certain rules of society that fall under illegal acts. These laws apply to anyone who works or plays online. Hacking into others information, downloading illegal music, plagiarizing, creating destructive worms, viruses or creating Trojan Horses, sending spam, or stealing anyone’s identify or property is unethical.
  • ---this is from the digital citizenship website:http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html
Digital law is the responsibility of a person with his actions when using a digital device.

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