COMP 1687 Web Application Development
L.S.E.P ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTING A FREECYCLE WEBSITE FOR THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH
Ahmed Raya
Computer Science
000801150
Introduction:
Designing and implementing any website should include careful consideration of legal, social, ethical and professional issues. The website implemented in the first coursework was a Freecycle website for the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The website allows users to sign up, give their personal information, and post their personal products. Information that sensitive should be carefully handled under regulations and procedures covered in this document.
Legal Aspects:
According to regulations, websites should at least provide:
• The name of the service provider, for
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The main purpose of these statements is to justify the information disclosure requirements of the Data Protection Act to reassure the website visitors that the details they provide will be used appropriately.
Disability Accessibility:
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 make it illegal for web sites to discriminate against a disabled person.
Websites usually actively discriminate against disabled persons by making it harder for them to use the website than it needs to be, however, not intentionally. Normally, web designers emphasise more on the original design planning and the visual impressiveness of the website rather than make reasonable adjustments for easy accessibility to disabled visitors to the website.
Cookies:
Cookies make interaction between users and websites faster and easier. It can be thought of as a user’s ID card, which tells a website what the user preferences are and when he/she has returned.
Cookies enable web sites to monitor their users ' web surfing habits and profile them for marketing purposes (for example, to find out which products or services they are interested in and send them targeted advertisements).
There is a requirement under the amended E-Privacy Directive and the UK Regulations to
• tell users about cookies and what you are going to use their information for; and
• obtain their consent to the placing of the cookies
The website About Cookies was created to link to from your site 's privacy policy to
A website places a cookie on your computer to remember certain data so it may run smoother when you return to the site, some government’s collect data to collect data for national security, Google can also collect data to send to marketing companies.
This section discuss about the common traits or ideas observed in the three research topics. Although, each of the three articles discuss a unique idea, all of them are aimed at utilizing the web data to produce better results. Web data mining is a hot research topic in the current realm of big data. These papers discuss about the utilization of the valuable user generated data from the social media or the browser cookies to provide the best user experience in order to maintain the user interest in the company's product or to take effective decisions by an individual. All the three articles propose an idea to solution the problem stated, compared their results to the existing models and showed significant improvement.
Here we discuss about the common traits or ideas observed in the three research topics. Although, these three papers discuss about different ideas, they all fall under the web data mining domain. web data mining is a hot research topic in the current realm of big data. These papers discuss about the utilisation of the valuable user generated data from the social media or the the browser cookies to provide the best user experience in order to maintain the user interest in the company's product or to take effective decisions by the individual.
Cookies are used to collect the information about your visit to the website. This information can be used in many ways for the multiple devices to monitor and maintain the information about the visitors to our website. Some visitors may set the browser not to accept the cookies or notify when you receive the cookies for deciding whether to accept the cookies. If you do not accept the cookies then you will not experience any visit orelse you have to subscribe the service offerings on this website. These cookies play an important role for providing the good customer experience.
In Jim Harper’s essay “Web Users Get as Much as They Give” (546), he states that “Most web sites track users, particularly through the use of cookies, little text files placed on Web surfers’ computers. Sites use cookies to customize a visitor’s experience.” This does make it hard to have privacy, but what Harper may not have considered is the good things about the cookies being stored. If someone were looking something up and they press the “stay logged in” button, they could close their browser and start back up where they left off, by staying logged in. This helps people who have a bad memory, or who browse the web frequently without remembering all the sites they
In today’s era of technology, many people are concerned about internet privacy. Most concerns are usually sparked by misinformation. One piece of technology that is most misunderstood is the cookie and its uses.
Disabilities have been used to discriminate on people who have them and people who do not.
This may be harder than it looks. For many people the internet may be their only way of communicating, working, and everything else they may not be able to do like the rest of the world. I would even say that peoples with disabilities may depend on the internet more than people without disabilities. On top of that, many government agencies have switched to a paperless, virtual environment. This saves both money and time. With that said, that can make it even harder for peoples with disabilities to take care of their day to day business. Joseph J. Lynett and John A. Snyder for the American Bar Association (2013) write, "As it appears the DOJ is preparing to issue standards governing web accessibility under the ADA, covered entities should assess with their IT professionals and attorneys whether their websites are accessible to individuals with disabilities and whether doing so would as a legal matter pose an undue hardship or fundamentally alter the nature of the goods or services provided. Based on the assessment and any accessibility barrier discovered, covered entities should map out a plan to make their websites accessible even in advance of the looming regulatory action from the DOJ. Covered entities whose websites are inaccessible to individuals with disabilities may be the targets of lawsuits filed; therefore, it behooves employers to review the accessibility features of their websites and Internet-based services consistent with the accessibility issues outlined above." (para
XYZ Inc. also collects specific information passively, such as obtaining online, non-identifying information through the use of cookies technology and Internet Protocol (“IP”) address tracking. Non-personal identification information might include the browser used by customers, type of computer, the operating systems, the Internet service providers, and other similar details (Chapter, 2017). The XYZ Inc. system automatically gathers information about the areas visited on the Site and about the links selected from within the Site to other sites (ISACA, 2017). Most browsers are set to accept cookies. Customers can adjust their browser to refuse cookies or to alert them when cookies are being sent, however, if they disable cookies, the full functionality of the sites may not be available to them.
Post a clear and comprehensive online privacy policy describing their information practices for personal information collected online from children;
Cookie Proliferation is expanding in the networking world and there is not really anyway of stopping this threat anytime soon. Cookies grasp certain data from an individual when they access a website and it is kept in the user’s browser. (Riofrio, 2013). Though this threat is not a virus, cookies can be used for malicious acts as data collected such as an individual’s identity information, assets and so on can then be manipulated into software which is called spyware. (All About Cookies).
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider switch on your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) allows the system to provide services or websites to recognize your browser, save it, and remember certain information. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous site activities or current, allows us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences in the future.
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 makes it unlawful to discriminate against a qualified disabled individual (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2005). Employers are required by law to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees or applicants with disabilities unless the employer can prove that the accommodation would be an undue hardship that requires significant difficulty or costs. Job discrimination against people with disabilities is illegal is practiced by employment agencies, labor organizations, private employers, etc.
The ADA makes any discrimination against disabled people just as illegal as the 19th Amendment for Women’s Suffrage made it illegal to discriminate against women. Disabled people are afforded the same opportunities as anyone else, but as I have learned, “prohibition
Disability discrimination is when an individual is treated unfairly or differently on the basis of their disability. The Equality Act replaced majority of the Disability Discrimination Act so as to further protect disabled people. A disabled person may not be discriminated against at work, in education, when buying or renting property or when providing goods, facilities or services (Everything Legal, 2016). Employers are required to make reasonable adjustments to any elements of the job which place a disabled person at a substantial disadvantage compared to non dis-abled people. The process of recruiting new employees should not unreasonable disadvantage disabled people for example employees can ask questions about a disability at an early