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.