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1
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What is data protection

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About lookijg sfter the personal data of people

2
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Organisations that collect personal data must…

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  • Only collect the data for a specific purpose
  • Make sure the data is accurate
  • Data that is not necessary for the specific purpose may not be collected
3
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Data collection sources

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3rd parties
Cookies
Paper registration
CCTV
Forms
4
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What are the 6 reasons for law processing

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  • Consent
  • Legal obligation
  • Public tasks
  • Contract
  • Vital interests
  • Legitimate interests
5
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Consent

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A person has agreed to their data being used

6
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Contract

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Processing is needed for a contract

7
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Legal obligation

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Processing the data is needed to meet the law

8
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Vital interests

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Processing is needed to protect someone’s life

9
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Public task

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For performing an official task

10
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Legitimate interest

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Their is a clear benefit to the usermor company

11
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Data must be stored so that

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  • Data is kept accurate and up to date
  • It is not kept longer than necessary
  • It must not be transferred to other countries unless they can keep it protected
  • Customers must be told of a data breach within 72 hours of it happening
12
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Methods of securing data

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  • Using passwaords
  • Security levels
  • Encrypting data
  • CCTV
  • Guards
  • 2 factor-authentication
13
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Rights of the Data Protection Act (2018)

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The right to view data stored about you organisations for free
You must consent to having marketing sent to you
The right to withdraw consent
The right to make changes to your data if it is inaccurate
The right to be forgotten

14
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Penalties from Data Protection Act

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In order of least to severe:

  • issues warnings
  • order company to comply
  • 4% of company turnover
  • €20 million
15
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Privacy issues

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Cookies and other data collection sources may be a reason to have concern because they don’t know what is happening to your data

16
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Cookies allow websites to

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Store data such as the contents of your shopping basket
Remember that you are logged into a website
Remember who your are
Track you
Target advertising to you

17
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What offences did the Computer Misuse Act (1990) give?

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Unauthorised access to computer material
Unauthorised access with intent to commit or facilitate a crime
Unauthorised modification of software or data
Making, supplying or obtaining anything used in computer misuse offences which can be

18
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What fines can the Computer Misuse Act (1990) bring?

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10 years in prison and a fine in addition to this

19
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What is unauthorised access?

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Where a person gains access to a computer system without permission

20
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What will hackers do with unauthorised access?

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They can try to find weaknesses in a computer system

21
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Give examples of unauthorised modification

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  • Deleting another user’s files
  • Changing the content of documents
  • Altering the content of web pages
  • Rewriting computer programs to remove activation keys
22
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What are inventions covered by?

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Patents

23
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What does copyright protect?

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Books, video, music and software for around 70 years after publication or an author’s death
Copyright also lets an author or musician decide how their work should be used

24
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What are the copyrighted materials and patents protected by?

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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1988)

25
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Copyright infringement

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Copying books, webpages, music, video or software

26
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What can copyright or trademark infringement result in?

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Fines

Up to 10 years in prison

27
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How can you prevent copyright

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  • License keys, activation keys and serial numbers
  • Holograms on physical products to show they are genuine
  • Online registration or activation will prevent the software from working if a licence has not been purchased
28
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Is software protected by copyright law?

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Yes

29
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For proprietary software, what must be bought first so that it can be used?

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A license

30
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For open source software, do you need a license to use it?

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No, it can be downloaded for free

31
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What is proprietary software?

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  • Most commonly used software by the general public today

- This type of software us typically off-the-shell and not custom made

32
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What does the developer of proprietary software do with the code?

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Keeps it

33
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What can the user do with proprietary software do?

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Cannot adapt or modify the software, must only be used if the user has a license.

34
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Often source software

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Provides access to the source code that was used to create it. By having the source code, users have the freedom to develop or modify it

35
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What do people do with open source software?

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Collab together to improve the software

36
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Give examples of open source software

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Linux, ubuntu, redhat