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GULEED SUDI 10D                                                                                 MR UKPEI

                                                             UNIT 3E

ICT LAWS

In order to preserve the confidentiality and to protect our society from the misuse of improving technology and preach of basic privacy, laws and legislations were passed:

Data Protection Act 1998: This Act covers information or data store in the computer or an organised paper filing system e.g. filing cabinet or about living people. The eight principals to Data Protection Act are as following:

  1. Must be collected and used fairly and inside the law.
  2. Must only be held and used for the reasons given to the Information Commissioner.
  3. Can only be used for those registered purposes and only be disclosed to those people mentioned in the register entry. You cannot give it away or sell it unless you said you would to begin with.
  4. Information held must be adequate (enough), relevant and not excessive (too much) when compared with the purpose stated in the register. So you must have enough detail but not too much for the job that you are doing with the data.
  5. Must be accurate and be kept up to date. There is a duty to keep it up to date, for example to change an address when people move.
  6. It must not be kept longer than is necessary for the registered purpose. It is alright to keep information for certain lengths of time but not indefinitely. This rule means that it would be wrong to keep information about past customers longer than a few years at most.
  7. The information must be kept safe and secure. This includes keeping the information backed up and away from any unauthorised access. It would be wrong to leave personal data open to be viewed by just anyone.
  8. The files may not be transferred outside of the European Economic Area (that's the EU plus some small European countries) unless the country that the data is being sent to has a suitable data protection law. This part of the Act has led to some countries passing similar laws to allow computer centres to be located in their area.
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These principals aim to enshrine worthy measures about the protection of the individual, however, there are aspects within the legal side of the law in which personal and confidential information can be breached. An example of this is yellow pages and the website 192.com where personal details can be viewed and misused. Furthermore, contradicts freedom of information acts 2000. I will now look at how this act affects our society.

HOW THE DATA PROTECTION ACT THIS AFFECTS MR. IRWIN AS A TEACHER:

  • He can’t show information about someone to someone else/ he must not give out ...

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