ICT Legislation

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Parvaaz Ahmed 2001 Leytonstone School 13411

                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                    Legislation Acts for ICT

ICT equipment now have laws which everyone must abide by, they can still use their ICT to their every needs but they cannot exploit this use by accessing areas of information or data which are not meant to be seen by the public eye. This mainly includes things like government data and other people’s personal information.

The 1998 Data Protection Act

The data protection act is basically the “right to privacy” .This is what everyone who has personal details and so forth on their pc expects since you don’t want other people accessing your information. The data protection act was made a law in 1984 but it was replaced by a new one, the act in 1998 that included the European Union law.

 There are 8 principles for personal data:

  1. Be processed fairly and lawfully
  2. Be obtained for specified and lawful purposes
  3. Be adequate relevant and not excessive for the purpose
  4. Be accurate and up-to-date
  5. Not to be kept longer than necessary
  6. Be processed within the rights of data subjects
  7. Be kept secure against loss damage and unauthorised and unlawful processing
  8. Not be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area.

These are the 8 areas in which the data protection act is in control of. Say for example I had bank account details on my pc and I was exchanging bank details over the internet no one beside me should be able to access that data since it is my personal bank account, but if someone managed to access that data and changed anything under my personal account they would be breaking the law of data protection. This law can also be broken if someone sent on my personal data to another source without consulting me or asking for my permission for it to be sent on it would be breaking the law of data protection.

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 Data protection normally only stands for personal details but if it was statistical data which was collected there is no problem in having that passed on since surveys never normally involve a person writing their names so it is ok. There can be exceptions of data protection individuals can have medical files sent to other hospitals in case they have an accident and are in a hospital which is not their normal GP.

  This act is weaved in to every technology including mine and my schools; it will mainly protect my documents at school. At my ...

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