The Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000 Es

The selective information Protection typify 1998 and the Freedom of Information recreate 2000Introduction============For my module computing I have to find research and grow detailedreport on freedom of schooling and the need for security. Theinformation commissioners office enforces and oversees the DataProtection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.I need to read and understand knowledge respecting private lives ofindividuals and encourage the openness and accountability of publicauthorities. In the report my aims and objectives allow be to application thefollowing aspects- What is Data Protection Act 1998 and identify and describe 8principles.- What is the Freedom Information Act 2000 and how does it build onthe Data Protection Act- loneliness and Electronic Communication (EC Directive) Regulation 2003came into force 11th December 2003. The Information Commissionersoffice mission how does he intend the directive to sour to work inUK.The completion of the repor t needs to be produced and handed in byFriday 30th April 2004.Executive SummaryIn this report It will cover all aspects of freedom if information andthe need of security covering the Data Protection Act 1998 and theeight essential principles. By promoting good information handlingpractice and enforcing data protection and freedom legislation and byseeking the influences national and international thinking on privacyof information on medical records.Analysis1.0 What is Data Protection Act (1998), 8 essential principles?Data is facts of any kind, whether in number or verbal form. Althoughthis is the correct business relationship business people are inclined to usethe terms to mean numerate information only.Data refers to facts and figures in their raw state, which have stillto be processed. If you carry out a survey to count the number of carsand vans which pass your house each day, the number you write down arethe data.Every computing device should be aware of the Data Protection A ct. Everyindividual on a computer should register with Data ProtectionRegistrar. It is a criminal crime not to register and ignorance ofthe law is no defence. Once registered, data users must comply withthe eight principles of the Data Protection Act (see below 1.1, Page7).The Data Protection Act, organisations which hold such informationhave to register with Data Protection and have to agre... ...issioners office What the regulation coverswww.iformationcommissioner.gov.uk/eventual.aspx?id=94 26/04/2004 Page1-210 David Baumer, Privacy of Medical Records it Implications ofHIPAA,2000,40-47, 19/4/200411 Anthony Browne, The observer, Lives ruined as NHS leaks patientsnotes Sunday June 25 2000, 19/4/200412 Nigel Hawkes, Times online Patient records go on database July21 2003, www.timesonline.co.uk/printfriendly/0,,1-2-751992-2,00.html19/04/200413 Subject Access and Medical records fees for access DataProtection Act 1998, Compliance advice, 19/4/2004www.informationcommissionersoffice.co .uk14 Consumers Advice to safeguard your medical records,www.epic.org/privacy/medical/EPIC_principles.txt 19/04/200415 Thomas C.Rindfleisch, Privacy, information Technology, andHealth Care, August 1997/Vol. 40, No.8, www.artn.nwu.edu/ 19/04/200416 Computer Security Group, Personal Medical Information, Security,Engineering and Ethics, 1995 -99,www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/Security/book-j/pmi96.html 19/04/200417 Andrew Wall, The nursing Specialist Group Private worriespublic concerns, March 1997 www.bcsnsg.org.uk/inftouch/vol3/wall.html19/04/2004