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Legislation and ICT
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THE DATA PROTECTION ACT (1998) THE COMPUTER MISUSE ACT (1990) COPYRIGHT, DISIGNS & PATENTS ACT (1989) HEALTH & SAFETY AT WORK ACT (1974) HEALTH & SAFETY REGULATIONS (1992) REGULATION OF INVESTIGATORY POWERS ACT (2000) The Data Protection Act (1998) The Data Protection Act (1998) came into force on 1st March 2000. It sets rules for processing personal information and applies to paper records as well as those held on computers. It was brought out because computers were getting more powerful and easy to use. Companies, government and other organisations began to use them to store large amounts of information about people, such as their customers, clients and staff details. Databases with this information can be quickly set up, searched, edited and accessed and take up less space than paper records. So company's send peoples personal data to one company to the other so that were a danger in case someone tries to access some ones personal details...
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