This week was another multiple choice quiz.
If a person has an idea for a novel (i.e. nothing other than a set of thoughts in their mind) they can copyright it... False - because you can only patent an idea not copyright it.
Which of these extends copyright to computer programs... The Copyright (Computer Programs) Regulations.
Decompilation is... When a program is taken apart.
If I publish something on the Internet it is not covered by copyright law... True - copyright is seperate from the internet. If you publish something on the internet which is already covered by copyright then it is covered, but if you publish something which is not covered by copyright then it will not be covered on the internet.
Copying programs is allowed when... the copy is a backup.
Hilary Mantel just won the Booker Prize for a novel called 'Wolf Hall'. Imagine she died next year (2010). When would you be free to copy 'Wolf Hall' in the UK... 2080.
If you illegally copy software you are liable for prosecution unless...
(a) You run away
(b) You didn't know the law when you committed the crime
Neither (a) nor (b)
You can decompile software when... it allows you to achieve a permitted objective and when decompilation is in accordance with the law.
A person has written software and published it. They can copyright it... True - because although they have stupidly published it without the protection that copyright gives, they still wrote it and have the right to copyright it as theirs.
Trojans, viruses and back-door programs are against which Act... The Computer Misuse Act.
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Thursday 29 October 2009
290CT Studio 2
This task is a muliple choice quiz, I will write the questions and correct answer.
The UK needs a Freedom of Information Act because... everyone should have a right to the weath of information held by public authorities, it will make public authorities more accountable and it will break down the culture of official secrecy.
What is the statutory timescale for answering a request... 20 working days.
What is the primary purpose of FOI legislation... to create transparency within government and make public authorities accountable to the public & to embed information and records management into public authority culture.
Requests for information under the Act can be made... by any person.
If a public authority requests a fee... it does not have to respond to the request until the fee is paid.
An authority does not have to comply with a repeat or similar request from the same applicant... unless a reasonable interval has elapsed between requests.
When determining a request a Public Authority must consider... whether the request is valid.
When does the FOIA override the DPA... when personal data is in the public interest.
The UK needs a Freedom of Information Act because... everyone should have a right to the weath of information held by public authorities, it will make public authorities more accountable and it will break down the culture of official secrecy.
What is the statutory timescale for answering a request... 20 working days.
What is the primary purpose of FOI legislation... to create transparency within government and make public authorities accountable to the public & to embed information and records management into public authority culture.
Requests for information under the Act can be made... by any person.
If a public authority requests a fee... it does not have to respond to the request until the fee is paid.
An authority does not have to comply with a repeat or similar request from the same applicant... unless a reasonable interval has elapsed between requests.
When determining a request a Public Authority must consider... whether the request is valid.
When does the FOIA override the DPA... when personal data is in the public interest.
Tuesday 20 October 2009
290CT Studio 1
Task: To look at four example cases and decide
(a) which principles of the Data Protection Act are relevant and why
(b) whether the case is not allowed by the Data Protection Act
Case One:
(a) Principle 4 is relevant because the data provided about the Mr Wiggins in this case study was not accurate.
(b) This is difficult as the data held about a different Mr Wiggins is correct but it just got given incorrectly by what was probably an administration error. So in my view it has not broken the data protection act. But Mr Wiggins should get his job back and his record should be cleared.
Case Two:
(a) Principle 4 is relevant because its been estimated that 85% will contain at least one error and for data to be inaccurate or out of date is against principle 4.
(b) From the moment that a person recieves an inaccurate Criminal Record this is a breach of the Data Protection Act as the person knows the data held about them is incorrect and they are able to sue the police.
Case Three:
(a) This case is talking about Principle 1 that says that data must not be processed unless people give consent. And it seems that the National Consumer council want this to read: Data must only be processed if people do give consent. Also its hard to know whether a tick box classed as informed consent.
Principle 2: If the company do not list all of the purposes that the data could be used for by the companies they sell your information to they are in breach of principle 2 as data shall only be used for one or more specified purposes.
Principle 6: Personal data has to be processed how we want it to be at the end of the day and with our rights taking top priority, so doing it a different way may help but it may not as people are already used to how it works.
(b) Nothing to do with the DPA is in breach at the moment.
Case Four:
(a) Principle 1: The data has been removed from the phonebook and stored somewhere else for no valid reason.
Principle 2: The person agreed for their information to be in the phonebook but not on a website or CD.
Principle 6: The person must be informed that their data is being used somewhere else and a person would not be in this case.
Principle 7: You would not know if the people that now hold the data on a CD for example have taken measures to protect it from being lost etc.
Principle 8: Having the information on the internet is classed as abroad.
(b) In this case I believe there would be a case with the DPA because principles have clearly been broken.
(a) which principles of the Data Protection Act are relevant and why
(b) whether the case is not allowed by the Data Protection Act
Case One:
(a) Principle 4 is relevant because the data provided about the Mr Wiggins in this case study was not accurate.
(b) This is difficult as the data held about a different Mr Wiggins is correct but it just got given incorrectly by what was probably an administration error. So in my view it has not broken the data protection act. But Mr Wiggins should get his job back and his record should be cleared.
Case Two:
(a) Principle 4 is relevant because its been estimated that 85% will contain at least one error and for data to be inaccurate or out of date is against principle 4.
(b) From the moment that a person recieves an inaccurate Criminal Record this is a breach of the Data Protection Act as the person knows the data held about them is incorrect and they are able to sue the police.
Case Three:
(a) This case is talking about Principle 1 that says that data must not be processed unless people give consent. And it seems that the National Consumer council want this to read: Data must only be processed if people do give consent. Also its hard to know whether a tick box classed as informed consent.
Principle 2: If the company do not list all of the purposes that the data could be used for by the companies they sell your information to they are in breach of principle 2 as data shall only be used for one or more specified purposes.
Principle 6: Personal data has to be processed how we want it to be at the end of the day and with our rights taking top priority, so doing it a different way may help but it may not as people are already used to how it works.
(b) Nothing to do with the DPA is in breach at the moment.
Case Four:
(a) Principle 1: The data has been removed from the phonebook and stored somewhere else for no valid reason.
Principle 2: The person agreed for their information to be in the phonebook but not on a website or CD.
Principle 6: The person must be informed that their data is being used somewhere else and a person would not be in this case.
Principle 7: You would not know if the people that now hold the data on a CD for example have taken measures to protect it from being lost etc.
Principle 8: Having the information on the internet is classed as abroad.
(b) In this case I believe there would be a case with the DPA because principles have clearly been broken.
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