Explain The Data Protection Act 1998 Nvq

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P5 Data Protection Act 1998 This law makes sure that businesses do not wield peoples information in a way deemed unfair to the customer or underhand it protects the customer and the details they have given in confidentiality, organisations cannot pass on information to third part organisations without the persons written permission however this is normally put down in small print so people agree normally without even knowing what they have done however it makes it illegal to do things like give home adresses to companies wanting to go door to door and pester people unless authorisation is granted by the person themselves this law could apply to an organisation such as cheadle and marple sixth form college in the way that it would be very…show more content…
ICT acceptable use policy This act includes basically how to use a computer and is more of a policy relating to the college than an actual law anyway this policy out rules thing like looking at porn on the college computers or even going on social networking sites or basically using the computer for anything other than your course there are a few other rules like no eating or drinking or sending messages with swear word in but the basic jist of it is that you shouldnt use the computer for anything other than work These are the rules for cheadle and marple sixth form college and there is a range of penalties differing in severity for breaking the rules depending on the severity of the

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