113. OCR A Level (H046-H446) SLR17 – 1.5 Moral, social & ethical issues part 3

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OCR Specification Reference
AS Level 1.5.2a
A Level 1.5.2a

This video, which is part of a series of five focuses on concerns surrounding computing technologies. The idea that new technologies bring with them new social and ethical issues, and that the law is often slow to catch-up to guard people against these issues. This video in particular focuses on the following topics: Censorship and the internet, and Computer technology used to monitor behaviour.

Key questions:

- What do we mean by censorship on the internet, and to what degree do various countries censor content?
- How can computer technology be used to monitor behaviour?

00:00 Moral, social & ethical issues - Part 3
00:15 Intro
00:20 Censorship and the internet
00:33 Filtering software
01:38 Government level censorship
03:30 Using computer technology to monitor behaviour
03:56 Deliberately chosen by the user
04:20 Passive monitoring
04:55 Forced tracking
05:52 Key questions
06:07 Going beyond the specification
06:12 Keeping up with technological developments
06:17 Outro

Last updated: 23.07.26

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