GLOBAL LEGISLATION Flashcards
Data protection outside of the UK
1a. What is the problem with transferring data outside of the UK? [2]
1b. Why can personal data be transferred between European countries? [2]
personal data should not be transferred outside the UK unless the country receiving the data has adequate data protection laws that match the data protection act 2018/ GDPR
GDPR was first introduced in all european union countries i 2018. this set of regulations ensure that personal data is protected and can be sent between EU countries. However many other countries have partially adequate data protection laws whilst many nations have inadequate or no laws regarding data protection.
EU- US privacy shield
Personal data can be sent between european countries and the united states because of a protection scheme which was known as the ‘safe harbour’ scheme (between 2000 and 2015) and the EU-US privacy shield (between 2015 and 2020)
This provided protection to European data in the US and required both companies engaged in data transaction to sign up to the scheme before personal data could be transferred. The companies must have been accessed as responsible for the security of the data,
the scheme was stopped in July 2020 because the European court of justice argued it didn’t adequately protect the personal data of Europeans from government access.
UNCRPD
united nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
it states that disabled people should be able to access information systems and use digital means to express their opinion (article 21)
methods of complying with this convention is:
- using >alt< text on images so that text to speech software can describe the image aloud, for the visually impaired. the >alt< tag can be added to the HTML code of an image on a website and will audibly be spoken by specialist reading software
- accessibility settings: websites could allow users to change the font size and style or change the background color to make text easier to read. Wikipedia presents some articles to be listened to if the user is unable to read them
