Access to Information Act

Executive Summary Computer access and information storage has drastically evolved with the increase of computer usage and internet access across a wide range of areas including homes, businesses, schools and government departments. These changes make requirements for more specific laws to regulate the use of computers and storage of data as well as new forensic techniques and tools to investigate such offences. Following this, computer forensic investigators are becoming a necessity for lawyers and

Misuse Act 1990 The computer misuse act was created to make it an offence to access a computer that someone is not entitled to use. Offences that are covered by the act include hacking, accessing computers without the authority to do so and purposefully installing malware. The act makes it illegal to access or to attempt to access a computer system without the correct authorisation and If the hacker tries to get into the system but is unsuccessful they can be taken to court for this. The act introduced

When a company is either extracting the information they have obtained or using it to optimise their performance there are several legal acts they need ensure they are not breaching by doing so. These are the Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of the Information Act 2000 and the Computer Misuse act 1990. Data Protection Act 1998 The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable

Data Protection Act 1998 This legislation protects people’s data and information stored on databases. Data subjects are people whose personal data is stored, the rights given to data subjects are: right of subject access, right of correction, right to prevent distress, right to prevent direct marketing, right to prevent automatic decisions, right of compliant to the information commissioner and right to compensation. The eight principles of the data protection act that companies need to adhere to

in the law / regulation? Family educational rights and privacy act was enforced in the year 1974.This act is under U.S compliance laws. The law states that all educational institution and university are applied by this law. As per the law it states that all educational institution must protect the privacy of its student and all its records should be protected and must give access to only view their own record. The enforcement of this act is done by the Family Policy compliance office of the U.S department

provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and what Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) must describe. One of the provision of the Privacy Act of 1974 is that provides individual access to his or her record or any information that the federal government has about him or her. According to the Privacy Act of 1974 one of the provisions is that an individual can request his archives in stored by federal agency to review (subsection d, Access to Records, 2005)

Data Protection Act This act was brought in by Parliament in order to define the UK law on processing data. This governs the protection of personal data in the UK. It also helps to control how an individual’s personal information is used by many different businesses and organisations that may contact them. Anyone who can be held responsible for using data must follow specific rules/guidelines e.g. data must be used fairly and lawfully, it must be used for limited and stated purposes, and it must

PROPOSITION ON THE PUBLIC FREEDOM OF INFORMATION OF INDONESIA By: Adistra Kusuma Waligalit, Faculty of Law of Gadjah Mada University This study identified several Legal defects regarding the Act on Public Freedom of Information of Indonesia. These legal defects will be explained along with the reccomendations of remedy as below. INTRODUCTION After experiencing a difficult time in New Order era (1966-1998), when the civil rights to freely obtain information had been abused by the government at

Handling Information in Health & Social Settings PWCS 38 – Understand How to Handle Information in a Social Care Setting Identify the legislation and codes of practice within your care of environment that relate to handling information. Legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in social care settings e.g. Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information Act 2000, The Health and Social Care Act 2001 (and subsequent amendments in 2006 and 2008), Human Rights Act 1998

Statements 2 Internationally security techniques and standards, such as ISO 17799, establish guidelines that organizations must implement in order to maintain information security. Information must be protected from those without a readily need to know to perform organizational business functions. Unauthorized access to information can have a detrimental impact on an organization from a legal and operating perspective. One of the primary preventive controls that provide an organization with many