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Data Security & Legal Issues

1-          What is data protection act?

The data protection act controls how the personal information is used by organizations, governments or companies. It’s passed by the British government in 1998. It sets rules for people who use or store any data about other people giving rights to the people who had their data’s collected.

2-         Who is the Information Commissioner?

The person who has overall responsibility to enforce the data protection act in his respected country.

3-         Who is the data controller?

The person (or people) who determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed.

4-         Who is the data subject?

The individual who is the subject of personal data.

5-         Who are the data users?

The person who can access, use and process data.

6-         What’s personal data?

It means the data which is related to a living individual and can be identified through out those data or from other information which is in the possession of the data controller.

Q} Find & list all 8 points of the DPA.

The personal data should be:

1-          Processed fairly & lawfully.

2-         Obtained for specified and lawful purposes.

3-         Adequate, relevant and not excessive.

4-         Accurate and up to date.

5-         Not kept any longer than necessary.

6-         Processed in accordance with the “data subject’s” rights.

7-         Securely kept.

8-         Not transferred to any other country without adequate protection.