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Legislation
data protection act 2018
A legislation that ensures protection of an indivigiuals data
Data must be processed lawfully
Data must only be collected for specified resons
Its about the storing of personal data
The use and aquisition of the data
Collecting it,storing it and securing it are core parts
data you hold must be processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data
Software licenses act
Users cannot modify the software
Usually paid for and licenced per user or per computer
Supported be developers
Users do not have access to the source code
Test by developers prior to release.Although they may run beta programmes
open source
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
Proprietary software
computer missuse act 1990
fraud
data theft
unautherised work
Planting of viruses
Unautherised access
unauthorised data destruction
Copyright designs and patents act 1998
Theft by a buisness of the methos and ideas of other ICT buisnesses
Software piracy - the illegal copying or downloading of software
Using software without the correct or any software license
The use of ICT to copy or download files such as music,videos or text, to avoid paying