In any technology project you need to consider legal and ethical issues.
Legal issues are to do with the law.
Ethical issues are to do with right and wrong.
Ethical issues are things that people argue passionately about.
Actions can be legal but not ethical.
Actions can also be - defended as - ethical but not legal.
Sometimes what is legal is also open to argument.
An interesting recent example from the media is the case of the Waihopai Spy Base trial, where the peace protestors claimed that what they did was to prevent suffering and was therefore not illegal.
You MUST include legal and ethical issues somewhere in your project - either your key factors or your codes of practice would be sensible. And you will need to talk about these issue again in yuor evaluation.
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