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Legal Case Study Introduction- overview: This is task 1 of the CS2026A module. For this task I have to critically assess the given scenario adopted from Dave Colantonio and Deborah Johnson in Anderson, R.E., Johnson, D.G., Gotterbarn, D., and Perrolle, Judith (1993) "Using the New ACM Code of Ethics in Decision Making" Communications of the ACM 36(2) (February), pp 98-107). I have to balance the arguments and give my opinions. The topics of discussions are: The ethical software practitioner, Professional codes of conduct and practice & the data protection act. I will explain what each topic is and then relate it to the scenario. I will use my resources as required and structure my report using: a main body, conclusion & references. What is an ethical software practitioner? Well in principal, an ethical software practitioner is a person who commits him or herself to carrying out analysis, specification, design, development, testing and maintenance of software in a safe, beneficial and respected profession. The software practitioner should always be committed to his health and safety and that the practitioner should put the public welfare before other things including harm to members of public. These guidelines are in line with the rules set by the IEEE and Association of Computer machinery (ACM) in the US and the Institute for electrical engineering (IEE) and the British computer society (BCS) in the UK, who are known as professional bodies for monitoring professional conduct & practise. What are professional codes of conduct and practise? It is required with members of a society not to breach any professional sta... ... middle of paper ... .../Features/600206 (accessed: 21 November 2004, 20:18:21). Computing and Public policy, Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice. URL: www.acm.org/serving/se/code.htm#full (accessed: 21 November 2004, 21:56:55). BCS (2004) BCS code of conduct. URL: www.BCS.org/BCS/Join/WhyJoin/Conduct.htm (accessed: 19 November 2004, 20:44:12) The UK patent office, URL: www.patent.gov.uk/ (accessed: 21 November 2004). Bott F., Coleman A., Eaton J., Rowland D. (2001). Professional issues in software engineering, third edition, Taylor and Francis publishing, New York, pp 317-341. Dave Colantonio and Deborah Johnson in Anderson, R.E., Johnson, D.G., Gotterbarn, D., and Perrolle, Judith (1993) "Using the New ACM Code of Ethics in Decision Making" Communications of the ACM 36(2) (February), pp 98-107

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