YEAR 1 C01 WEEK 16 LAWS!

Question 1

What is the Data Protection Act designed to do?

Answer 1

Designed to protect personal data stored on computers.
To control the way information is handled and to give legal rights to people who have information stored about them.

Question 2

What are the 8 principles of the Data Protection Act?

Answer 2

Personal data should be obtained and processed fairly and lawfully.
(Should be told about data collected about you. Ask for permission. )
Personal data can be held only for specified and lawful purposes.
(Data collector to state why they want to collect and store information)
Personal data should be adequate, relevant and not excessive for the required purpose.
Personal data should be accurate and kept up to date.
(Companies try best to make sure not to record wrong facts about data subject)
Personal data should not be kept longer than is necessary.
(Organisations should only keep data for reasonable length of time)
Data must be processed on accordance with the rights of data subject.
Appropriate security measures must be taken against unauthorised access .
(Means information has to be kept safe from those who don’t have the rights to see it)
Personal data cannot be transferred to countries outside of EU unless the country has similar legislations to the Data Protection Act.