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Title: Unit 3 (Information Systems) - P3
Description: This is the P3 for Unit 3 - Information Systems document.
Description: This is the P3 for Unit 3 - Information Systems document.
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Unit 3 – P3 (Legal Issues)
The Data Protection Act 1998 –
The Data Protection Act is the UK Law on the processing of data on identifiable living people
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One principle of the Data Protection Act is ‘Personal data should be obtained and processed fairly
and lawfully’
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You should also be aware of why they are collecting your data, and what your
data will be used for
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This means
that the ‘Data Controller’ has to state why they want to collect and store your information when
they ask you for permission to be able to do so
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The Computer Misuse Act 1990 –
The Data Protection Act is the UK law that was introduced to deal with the increased incidence of
computer hacking (the unauthorised accessing of a computer system)
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One principle of The Computer Misuse Act is to ‘Gain unauthorised access to another person’s
software or data’
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Another principle is to ‘Gain unauthorised access to a computer’s data with the intention of breaking
the law further
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This is a further offence and can result in a higher penalty of up to 5 years of
prison
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This policy means that emails
that are given by the organisation are not personal use emails, and are to be only used for work
purposes
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Another policy is ‘The
distribution of any disruptive or offensive messages, including offensive comments about race,
gender, hair colour, disabilities, age, sexual orientation, pornography, religious beliefs and practice,
political beliefs, or national origin
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’ This is a
very important policy, and also one that should be known as common sense
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This
does not mean being able to email your colleagues asking about their personal life, just because they
are colleagues
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Also any email sent from the organisation with anything offensive can and will give
the organisation a bad name, and lower their reputation
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Whistle blowing –
Whistle blowing is a deed done by a person who exposes misconduct, alleged dishonest or illegal
activity occurring in an organisation
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Whistleblowers can take their allegations internally (for example to friends) or externally
(to regulators, law enforcement agencies or to the public media
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Whistle blowing is an effective method to change organisations forever
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For example is someone is thieving cash from the organisation, that action
can be stopped up and the money can be returned if the authorities are told
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Most
whistleblowers have gone forward with knowledge saying that most of their organisations they work
for are breaking laws and polluting water systems or dumping toxic wastes in areas that they
shouldn’t be
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Because it is illegal to fire a
staff for whistle blowing, it means the staff will become mistrusted and be known as a ‘snitch’
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On the other hand, it may also affect ones
negatively, as one complain of illegal acts by an organisation, can be the end of it, as it could have
very well been the only purpose of the organisation
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Let’s take an example such as Coca Cola
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This is because it enables only Coca Cola factories to
produce the original Coca Cola, therefore only Coca Cola will have the original taste
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This is because they all try
different recipes that they assume will be close enough if not the actual flavour as Coca Cola
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Operational Issues –
Health and safety procedures do not happen by chance when you make an organisation
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Then, you must do whatever you can to erase these risks from any
work that your staff will undertake
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This also means that everyone will
be protected and know what to stay away from, to avoid these risks from occurring
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First things first,
once a business begins, they should put a business recovery plan together, and then test it
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Without these things, the recovery won’t be successful
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Most systems nowadays
do backups of the whole organisation’s data, in case something happens over night, such as theft or
violation of property
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Title: Unit 3 (Information Systems) - P3
Description: This is the P3 for Unit 3 - Information Systems document.
Description: This is the P3 for Unit 3 - Information Systems document.