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ICT LAWS In order to preserve the confidentiality and to protect our society from the misuse of improving technology and preach of basic privacy, laws and legislations were passed: Data Protection Act 1998: This Act covers information or data store in the computer or an organised paper filing system e.g. filing cabinet or about living people. The eight principals to Data Protection Act are as following: 1. Must be collected and used fairly and inside the law. 2. Must only be held and used for the reasons given to the Information Commissioner. 3. Can only be used for those registered purposes and only be disclosed to those people mentioned in the register entry. You cannot give it away or sell it unless you said you would to begin with. 4. Information held must be adequate (enough), relevant and not excessive (too much) when compared with the purpose stated in the register. So...

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