quality management principles

Professional Standards

Part One / Task One

I have been asked to describe two current legal requirements affecting the implementation and management of computer systems.

I must:
Give an outline of what is required
and
Must state the advantages that the legal standards are designed to achieve.

The two legal requirements that I have chosen are The Data Protection Act and The Computer Misuse Act.


The Data Protection Act:

The Data Protection Act is designed to ensure that by laying down certain principles to which data-collecting organisations must adhere too. The principles describe a best practice approach, which should be adopted by persons in order to protect their users right to privacy, as well as being a legal obligation.

The Data Protection Act refers to the processing of personal information by organisations and businesses. In order for the Act to apply, ‘individuals have to be personally identifiable by the data that is held about them’; where they...