Data protection act

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ICT and the law

Data protection act

The data protection act protects data from being stolen. For example peoples personal data. The data protection act was brought down to parliament to control the way information is handled and to give legal right to people who have information stored about them.

The data protection act is a law to protect your personal data stored on your computer. The law was passed by parliament to control the way data is stored. The law is useful because no one can legally see your data other than your self or someone you want to show any data to. If some one tried to ‘hack’ into some of your data, they would be doing so illegally and if they were caught they would most likely to be sent to jail.

The computer misuse act

The computer misuse act was made to protect people from hackers and crackers. The law prevents hackers from sending viruses that could damage other people’s computers. But the law still has flaws in it; some people use the loopholes and others, knowing the law hack anyway knowing the risks and penalties of being caught. The computer misuse act also lets you view data about your self, and if you want to you can request to have it deleted.

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The computer misuse act protects people’s network from being hacked into. For example peoples passwords being found out. This also prevents hackers (people who get into a network with out being authorized. Even though hackers hack into peoples computers today most of them are frighten that they might get caught and will have to suffer the penalties of the computer misuse act.

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act  

The copyright law usually protects companies, or things like the music industry. The law says that no one is allowed to copy a purchase CD for example, and ...

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