Outcome D - Topic 5

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What is the Data Protection Act?
It affects all organisations that hold personal data about individuals, it ensures that personal data must be kept up to date, accurate, safe and secure and not used in ways that can harm individuals.
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What are the Principles of DPA?
1. Processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner
2. Collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes
3. Adequate, relevant and not excessive
4. Accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date
5. Not kept for longer than is necessary in a
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How can organisations ensure that data is kept accurate?
Manual Procedures - cross-checking by the individual whose data is held
Input Methods - selecting from a list of alternatives, looking up an address from a postcode and comparing with the given address given
Validation and Verification of data when input,
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Why may data need to be updated?
1. Information will change
2. Access rights
3. If it's inaccurate
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What are the code of practice
for the use of surveillance cameras?
1. Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR)
2. Body worn video (BWV)
3. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS)
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What are the codes of practice for the British Computing Society (BCS)?
1. Act professionally
2. Promote good practice
3. Work within their technical competence
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What does the Computer Misuse Act (1990) make it an offence to do?
1. Gain unauthorised access to computer material
2. Gain unauthorised access in order to
commit further offences
3. Modify computer material without permission
4. Make, supply or obtain anything for
use in computer misuse
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What are the Principles of DPA?

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1. Processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner
2. Collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes
3. Adequate, relevant and not excessive
4. Accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date
5. Not kept for longer than is necessary in a

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How can organisations ensure that data is kept accurate?

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Why may data need to be updated?

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Card 5

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What are the code of practice
for the use of surveillance cameras?

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