Data Protection Act
The Data Protection Act 1998 applies to personal information. There is information that includes names addresses, bank details and opinions expressed about an individual.
In today's society organisation and governments use computers to store personal information they are easily searched, updated. The computers that store the information are usually on a networked so they can easily share information with other organisations. DPA protects people's information from being used in the wrong form for example Indentnity fraud.
The purpose of the Data Protection Act
The 1998 Data Protection Act was passed by Parliament to control the way information is handled and to give legal rights to people who have information stored about them.
Copyright
Copyright gives creators media rights, Music, Videos & Pictures. Copyright is to prove it's yours and no one can copy it. It has helped with software developers with illegal downloads. They use serial keys to prevent the use of illegal software downloads. When you buy the software it comes with a serial key to activate the software.
Computer Misuse Act
The misuse of using a computer could be many things, hacking, stored data that can be misused, copying software without permission, abuse to people social networking sites and viruses. Computer misuse act has had an affect in society. Trending topics like Tom Daley in the Olympics, a twitter user had abused Tom on winning and got arrested for abusing his father.
The purpose of the Data Protection Act
The 1998 Data Protection Act was passed by Parliament to control the way information is handled and to give legal rights to people who have information stored about them.
Copyright
Copyright gives creators media rights, Music, Videos & Pictures. Copyright is to prove it's yours and no one can copy it. It has helped with software developers with illegal downloads. They use serial keys to prevent the use of illegal software downloads. When you buy the software it comes with a serial key to activate the software.
Computer Misuse Act
The misuse of using a computer could be many things, hacking, stored data that can be misused, copying software without permission, abuse to people social networking sites and viruses. Computer misuse act has had an affect in society. Trending topics like Tom Daley in the Olympics, a twitter user had abused Tom on winning and got arrested for abusing his father.
