Until recently there were very few
restrictions of copyright allowing people to
pirate and steal data.
New Regulations ensure that users cannot have their
products stolen and used by other people but instead
can sue the theif.
Enviromental
Cooling
A grand amount of power is put
into the cooling of servers all
around the world.
Around 500 MW of power are used on these
server houses just to keep the room cool.
With the combined power of the servers
themselves a lot of power is used.
Manufacturing
A lot of money is put into
manufacturing computer parts
which also is bad for the
environment because of the
factories making the parts create
fumes that damage the environment.
Legal
Data protection Laws
Data Must be processed fairly
It can only be used for the purpose they have said it will
They should only hold data they actually need
Data must be accurate and up to date
Data must not be held longer that it is needed for
Data will be used in accordance with your rights
Data will be kept safe
Data will not be transferred to any country where they don't have similar laws
Sony
They broke laws of data protecting as their
security was not up to date like it should have
been so they had to go to court about the
whole thing, this was originally found out
because of the fact they got attacked and all
data was stolen.