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    Social Care are: Data Protection Act 1998. The Data Protection Act is a key piece of legislation that ensures peoples rights regarding the confidentiality of their personal information. When handling someone’s information or personal data the data protection act highlights 8 principles that define good practice and breaching these principles can lead to serious legal implications. In Health and Social care many policies and procedures are based on the principles of the data protection act to ensure that

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    The main intent is to protect individuals against misuse or abuse of information about them.” Calin Rusu Equality and Diversity Act (2010) is another important legislation which is linked to every LLUK standard. In my opinion, knowing and understanding the Equality and Diversity Act is crucial for me as a teacher in order to assess every learners needs and to meet these needs. It is not easy to treat all my students equally, especially if they are different

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    “Smart” is the word which has been used in the past couple of years for electronic devices used in day to day life which faced a revolutionary transformation over the years. The time was when Apple introduced its revolutionary phone as “iPhone” in 2007, which made all consumer electronics makers to think out of the current imagination. From then on, phones used in the last decade started to become smartphones, TVs to smart TVs and on that chain, by now we have smart watches and smart homes too. The

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    published guidance from the GMC, BMA, Department of Health as well as many legal acts which come into force: Data Protection Act 1998: processing of information held Access to Health Records Act 1990: rights of access to deceased patients' records Human Rights Act 1998: right to a private life - not absolute Computer Misuse Act 1990: unauthorised access to computer material (using someone else's password/login) NHS Act 2006 (England and Wales): Secretary of State for Health has the power to make regulations

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    Assignment 301 Understanding roles, responsibilities and relationships in education and training Gavin Hayden Word count:1,632 Task A Information leaflet: You have been asked to produce a leaflet that mentors within your organisation can use when supporting new members of staff. The leaflet needs to outline some of your organisation’s procedures and be a useful reference point. In this document you will: A) explain the teaching training role and responsibilities in education and training (ref

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    INTRODUCTION Most organization or IT associations, spend billions yearly on IT Infrastructure to make and oversee complex data frameworks. Equipment coordination, programming updating, over the top preparing of staffs consistently, server farm offices and salaries means the overabundance spending on IT Infrastructure. In today 's world, associations are moving from the universe of IT Infrastructure into distributed computing which is also known as cloud computing. Cloud computing is presently quick

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    information Introduction In this task, I have been asked summarise the Data Protection Act (1998) and Computer Misuse Act (1990). Also I will have to explain the ethical issues surrounding the code of practice (when using email and internet) and information ownership and talk about the importance of backing up information and impact of increasing the sophistication of systems. [P3] Legal Issues – The Data Protection Act 1998 is the act to control how your personal information is used by organisations

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    or healthcare assistant is justified in disclosing confidential information to a third party without the consent of the patient it relates to. Also, discussing the legal laws and acts that make this possible and a description of what these laws and acts mean and are about. Covering cases were some of these laws and acts have been used. Lastly giving information on which third parties whether it be people, companies or authorities who can request to see your details without the consent of patient

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    The school policy on confidentiality provides sufficient guidelines for staff about the everyday practice of information sharing. The confidentiality policy has its legal roots in documents like Every Child Matters, the Children Act 2004 and the Data Protection Act 1998. According to these laws the school is only entitled to ask for information that is directly relevant to the education of the child. This information is considered confidential and must only be used for the purpose it was gathered

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    Furthermore, the data in inquiry was "sensitive personal data" for the reason that it pertained to the health of Campbell. As a consequence, it was concluded by the court that except that Daily Mirror could make the most of the freedom in the Data Protection Act given to the publication of press, the scholarly as well as arty data in section 32, there had been an infringement of the Data Protection Act for which Ms Campbell go to be compensated (Cozens, 2002)

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