Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Legislation Relevant to Computing
- Data Protection Act
- Aim
- Respond to the rising concerns
about the amount of personal
data being stored and processed
by computer systems
- Mandations
- Register with the Information
Commissioner for those
organisation who store and
process personal data
- Principles
- Personal data must be
- processed against loss,
theft or corruption
- accurate and
where relevant
kept up to date
- adequate,relevant,non excessive
- prevented from being
transferred outside EU to
countries without
adequate provision
- fairly and
lawfully
processed
- processed within
rights of subjects
- deleted when no longer needed
- used only for the purpose intended
- Computer Misuse Act
- Aim
- Combat issues arising from computer misuse
- Offences
- accessing data without permission
- EXAMPLE
- looking at someone else's files
- accessing computer systems without permission
- EXAMPLE
- hacking
- altering data stored on a computer system without permission
- EXAMPLE
- writing a virus that deliberately deletes data