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Legislation - Coggle Diagram
Legislation
Computer misuse act 1990
Designed to keep up with technology
illegal to access unauthorised data with intenet to commit other offecnces
Illegal to access unauthorised data with the intent to modify data
Fraud
Data theft
unauthorised work
Planting viruses
Misconseptions
Hacking - can be a legal action when permission is granted
Data protection act 2018
Storing of personal data
Use and acquisition of data must be lawful and fair
has to be kept secure
Prevent threats to data
Data protection measures
Copyright / design and patents act 1998
illegal to modify or distribute images, music and video
Algorithms, computer programs and databases are covered under this act
Protects peoples original work
Software licences
Propriety software
Protected by the copyright designs and patent act
Users cannot modify the software
Supported by developers
Users do not have access to the source code
Usually paid for and licenced per user or per computer
Open source software
Users can modify and distribute the software
Can be installed on any number of computers
Support provided by the community
Users have access to the source code
May not be fully tested
misconseptions
No such thing as closed source
open source is not always free
Creative commons
Non profit
Shares intellectual property