Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Legislation
- Computer Misuse Act 1990
- 4 Offences
- 1 - Unauthorised access to
computer material
- 2 - Unauthorised access with
intent to commit or facilitate a
crime
- 3 - Unauthorised modification of
computer material
- 4 - Making, supplying or obtaining
anything which can be used in
computer misuse offences
- Penalties
- 1 - Up to 6 months in prison/hefty fine
- 2 - Up to 5 years prison
sentence and/or hefty fine
- 3 - Up to a 5 year
prison sentence and/or
hefty fine
- 4 - Up to a 5 year prison sentence
and/or unlimited fine
- Problems
- Proving the offence took place
- Plead ignorance saying they weren't
aware what they were doing
- Tracing who was responsible
- Blaming others - saying they
were hacked
- Damage already done even when caught
- Data lost or irretrievably
damaged/sold to other
companies
- Data Protection Act 1998
- Terminology
- Personal Data
Anmerkungen:
- Covers both facts and opinions about a living individual
- Data subject
Anmerkungen:
- The person that the data is being collected from or stored about
- Data processor/ Data user
Anmerkungen:
- Someone who accesses, uses and processes personal data as part of their jobs
- Data controller
Anmerkungen:
- Often the person in charge of the organisation - responsible for ensuring that any collection, storage and processing is done in accordance of the DPA
- Information Commissioner
Anmerkungen:
- Overall responsibility for enforcing DPA in the UK
- Eight Principles
- Personal Data should
be obtained and
processed fairly and
lawfully
- Personal data can be held only
for specified and lawful
purposes
- Personal data should be
adequate, relevant and not
excessive for the required purpose
- Personal data should be
accurate and kept up-to-date
- Personal data should not be kept for
longer than necessary
- Data must be processed in
accordance with the rights of the
data subject
- Appropriate security measures
must be taken against
unauthorised access
- Personal data cannot be transferred to
countries outside the EU unless it has
similar legislation to the DPA
- Computer Design and Patents Act 1988
- Copyright Act
- Introduced to protect the investment of time,
money and effort by the people who produce
original pieces of work
- Authors of books, composers, film
makers, game designers etc
- 2 Main purposes
- 1 - To ensure people are rewarded for
their endeavours
- 2 - To give protection to the copyright holder if someone
tries to copy or steal their work
- Copyright and ICT
- Copying software
- Copying or downloading music
- Copying images or
photographs from the web
- Copying text from
webpages and
pretending its your own
- Software Licences
- Single User Licence
- Loaded onto 1 machine, but other people can use
it on the same device
- Multi User Licence
- Bought for specific number of users
Anmerkungen:
- Ie, 20 users, so at any one time, only 20 people on the network can use the software
- Site Licence
- Everyone in that site or office can use it