Data Protection Act- 8 principles Founded in 1998 Personal data must be: 1. Processed fairly and lawfully. 2. Processed only for one or more specified and lawful purpose. 3. Adequate‚ relevant and not excessive for those purposes. 4. Accurate and kept up to date - data subjects have the right to have inaccurate personal data corrected or destroyed if the personal information is inaccurate to any matter of fact. 5. Kept for no longer than is necessary for the purposes it is being processed.
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Explain the issues and policies organisations must consider when planning computer systems maintenance (P1‚ M1) Polices are something that are needed in the work place because they make sure that all the information that is collected is both safe and secure but also making sure that the information isn’t leaked outside the company. The information that can be leaked from a company is ranged from personal information of the employees that work there or something that will allow the company to
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Computer Misuse Act 1990 The computer misuse act of 1990 is a law in the UK that makes certain activities illegal‚ such as hacking into other people’s systems‚ misusing software‚ or helping a person gain access to protected files of someone else’s computer. The main goal of the Act was to discourage this kind of behaviour in the future. The act identifies three specific offences: 1. Unauthorised access to computer material. 2. Unauthorised access to a computer system with intent to break‚ change
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Computer Misuse Act – Jake Barrell Computer misuse act came to force in 1990. The Act Covers This act covers hacking which is when someone illegally gains access to a computer with someone else’s username or password which you do not have permission to use being unauthorised access‚ modify files or data without the consent of the creator‚ or commit illegal acts such as fraud while using the stolen username or password. Examples of unauthorised access An employee uses a company computer to
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In this article the Computer Misuse Act 1990 was raised. It states that a teenage from Dorset England. Aaron Caffrey aged 19 had apparently sent a virus to another person computer while they were at work at America’s bigger port. The convicted was accused of hacking into the system and sent a virus use cause the either network of computers which caused them all to crash. The law that he had broken was the Computer Misuse Act 1990 the law states the following: “The Act contains three main offences
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properly according to the social rules of a language. Poor pragmatic competence will cause pragmatic failure. After Thomas‚ other scholars also made research into pragmatic failure. Some principles and theories they have formed‚ such as speech act theory‚ the theory of conversational implicature‚ relevance theory‚ the politeness principle‚ the cooperative principle etc‚ which provided a basis for our study on the pragmatic failure. Generally speaking‚ According to British linguist Thomas’s opinion
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relate to the security and privacy of data. Computer Misuse Act 1990 This act was introduced to prevent users hacking. This also stops them entering a computer‚ programs or files without authorisation‚ this act is in place to prevent users to use the internet without permission to cause an act of crime and also prevents unauthorised modifications to a computer. This act does not allow any attacks on a server as this is illegal. Hacking into a computer is not allowed as it can disrupt the business
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Data Protection Act 1998 Topshop asks for cutomer’s name‚ telephone number‚ home address‚ email address and age for competitions‚ prizedraws‚ or newsletter sign ups. When a purchase is made on their site‚ in addition to the above‚ they also ask for delivery address‚ and payment method details and they may obtain information about customer’s usage of their Website to help them develop and improve it further through online surveys and other requests. The data the company holds of its customers will
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Issues and constraints in relation to the use of business information Legal Issues Data Protection Act 1998 The first legal issue that Strode has to consider is the Data protection Act 1998. Strode College collects and uses data about its staff‚ students and other individuals who come into contact with Strode. Under the Data Protection Act the information must be collected and used fairly‚ stored safely and not disclosed to any other person unlawfully and the Data Protection Principles must be
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Legislation/Policy Explanation How Tesco complies Data Protection Act 1998 The data protection act protects people who are identifiable from their information and data being shared. The information will be bank details‚ address and billing and some other personal details. Information is collected from club card registrations and application forms. They cannot publish these details and will be securely stored on a database. However the information can be used by Tesco for market research which
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