5 issues and impact legislation and privacy Flashcards
what rights do the data protection act (2018) give you (4)
- To delete your personal data
- The right to withdraw consent
- The right to make changes to your data if it’s inaccurate
- The right to view data stored about you for free (before it was £10)
give issues associated with the collection and use of personal data (5)
- Privacy
- Ownership
- Consent
- Misuse
- Data protection
give the 6 lawful reasons for processing data
- consent
- contract
- legal obligation
- vital interests
- public task
- legitimate interests
what is a cookie
- a small text file with ID tags that is stored on your computer
- created when you use your browser to visit a website
what do cookies do (3)
- resume where you left off for when you revisit
- remember registered login
- remember theme selections
what is intellectual property
property that isn’t physical but has value
give examples of intellectual property
- logos
- brands
- books
- music
what are the three ways you can protect intellectual property
- patents
- copyright
- trademark
explain patents
prevents anyone using an invention for 20 years
explain copyright
- protects books, videos, music and software
- lets the creator decide how their work should be used
- for usually 70 years after publication or their death
explain trademark
names or symbols used by a company so that they cannot be used by others
give examples of trademark
- Advertising
- Business stationary
- Customer service
- Companies personality
what is propierty software
most commonly used software today
how can you start using propierty software
purchase a licence before use
what is open source software
software that provides access to the source code that was used to create it
how can you start using open source software
- the licence permits the software to be free of copyright
- (usually has conditions as requiring you not to sell it)
what is the computer misuse act 1990
- it is illegal to have any unauthorised access to data
- with the intention to commit further offences or modify data
give examples of things the computer misuse act 1990 can call you out for (4)
- fraud
- planting of viruses
- data theft
- deliberate data destruction
