Societal Impact
Class 11 · Computer Science · 16 Questions
Rishika found a crumpled paper under her desk. She picked it up and opened it. It contained some text which was struck off thrice. But she could still figure out easily that the struck off text was the email ID and password of Garvit, her classmate. What is ethically correct for Rishika to do?
Suhana is down with fever. So she decided not to go to school tomorrow. Next day, in the evening she called up her classmate, Shaurya and enquired about the computer class. She also requested him to explain the concept. Shaurya said, "Mam taught us how to use tuples in python". Further, he generously said, "Give me some time, I will email you the material which will help you to understand tuples in python". Shaurya quickly downloaded a 2-minute clip from the Internet explaining the concept of tuples in python. Using video editor, he added the text "Prepared by Shaurya" in the downloaded video clip. Then, he emailed the modified video clip to Suhana. This act of Shaurya is an example of:
After a fight with your friend, you did the following activities. Which of these activities is not an example of cyber bullying?
Sourabh has to prepare a project on "Digital India Initiatives". He decides to get information from the Internet. He downloads three web pages (webpage 1, webpage 2, webpage 3) containing information on Digital India Initiatives. Which of the following steps taken by Sourabh is an example of plagiarism or copyright infringement. Give justification in support of your answer.
Match the following:
| Column A | Column B |
|---|---|
| Plagiarism | Fakers, by offering special rewards or money prize asked for personal information, such as bank account information |
| Hacking | Copy and paste information from the Internet into your report and then organise it |
| Credit card fraud | The trail that is created when a person uses the Internet. |
| Digital Foot Print | Breaking into computers to read private emails and other files |
Preeti celebrated her birthday with her family. She was excited to share the moments with her friend Himanshu. She uploaded selected images of her birthday party on a social networking site so that Himanshu can see them. After few days, Preeti had a fight with Himanshu. Next morning, she deleted her birthday photographs from that social networking site, so that Himanshu cannot access them. Later in the evening, to her surprise, she saw that one of the images which she had already deleted from the social networking site was available with their common friend Gayatri. She hurriedly enquired Gayatri "Where did you get this picture from?" Gayatri replied "Himanshu forwarded this image few minutes back". Help Preeti to get answers for the following questions. Give justification for your answers so that Preeti can understand it clearly.
You are planning to go for a vacation. You surfed the Internet to get answers for the following queries: a) Weather conditions b) Availability of air tickets and fares c) Places to visit d) Best hotel deals. Which of your above mentioned actions might have created a digital footprint?
How would you recognise if one of your friends is being cyber bullied?
If you plan to use a short text from an article on the web, what steps must you take in order to credit the sources used?
When you search online for pictures, how will you find pictures that are available in the free public domain. How can those pictures be used in your project without copyright violations?
Describe why it is important to secure your wireless router at home. Search the Internet to find the rules to create a reasonably secure password. Create an imaginary password for your home router. Will you share your password for home router with following people. Justify your answer.
List down the steps you need to take in order to ensure
What is data privacy? Websites that you visit collect what type of information about you?
In the computer science class, Sunil and Jagdish were assigned the following task by their teacher.
Cite examples depicting that you were a victim of following cyber crime. Also, cite provisions in IT Act to deal with such a cyber crime.
Sumit got good marks in all the subjects. His father gifted him a laptop. He would like to make Sumit aware of health hazards associated with inappropriate and excessive use of laptop. Help his father to list the points which he should discuss with Sumit.