0.3 Obligations on the use of computers

Question 1

List 6 Legislations guiding the use of computers arround the world

Answer 1

A legislation is a law that has been enacted by paliament, there are certain legislation on computer usage respected by most countries in the world including:

1. The computer missuse Authentication
2. The Copyright design and patent Act
3. Data Protection Act
4. Official Secrets Act
5. Discrimination Acts
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Question 2

The Computer missusse act

Answer 2

This act was introduced in 1990, for the protection of computer data and has 3 main offenses:
1. Unauthorised access to data
2. Unauthorised access to data with the interntion to comit or facilitate the commision of futher offenses
3. Unauthorised data mofication

Question 3

The Copyright and Design Patent Act

Answer 3

“This act protects the work of creators

Question 4

The Data Protection Act

Answer 4

“This act protects the inforamation of living individusals

Question 5

The officail Secrets Act

Answer 5

“This is act provides criminal charges to anyone who exposes classified information on national security

Question 6

Discriminatio Acts

Answer 6

“These acts are guided by the priciple of unfair discremination

Question 7

Criminal Law

Answer 7

“This law considers the intetion of commit a a crime to be a crime it self regardless of whether the crime has been commited or not