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Ict and the law

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  • Essay length: 1725 words
  • Submitted: 25/01/2010
  • Marked by teacher: (?) Ad Son
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GCSE Legislation & The Legal Framework

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4 star(s)

Summary

This document gives the reader a good breadth of information covering the main points of the legislation mentioned in the title. There are some good examples in each section and this helps to demonstrate the understanding the student has of the principles of each piece of legislation.

Overall the document would benefit from clarity. This is in terms of the structure of the writing and also the way the legislation is portrayed as "law". It would help overall if there could be some clarification of what is law and what is not.

This piece of work is four stars overall.

Marked by teacher Ad Son 04/09/2013

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ICT and the Law

In this piece of coursework I will be talking about various laws and how they affect myself, Mr James (An Adult with a disability) and Mr Hulse (An adult in employment. There are 4 laws I will be concentrating on:

* The DPA

* Health and Safety

* The CMA

* The Copyright, Design and Patents Act

DPA (1998)

The DPA (Data Protection Act) is a law which enforces how data is collected and stored. It stops it from being misused and transported to countries who do not have similar protection of data. For instance, if a school had the personal data of a student and sold it to someone or gave it away, or pinned it up on a notice board or a wall somewhere, they would be prosecuted by the DPA for misuse of data. The DPA ensures all personal information digitally stored is not used in any other way than necessary, and are not viewed and changed when there is no need to. How would you feel if you applied for a job and someone had changed your GCSE results to a very poor

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Summary

This document gives the reader a good breadth of information covering the main points of the legislation mentioned in the title. There are some good examples in each section and this helps to demonstrate the understanding the student has of the principles of each piece of legislation.

Overall the document would benefit from clarity. This is in terms of the structure of the writing and also the way the legislation is portrayed as "law". It would help overall if there could be some clarification of what is law and what is not.

This piece of work is four stars overall.

Marked by teacher Ad Son 04/09/2013

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