What is a stakeholder?
Anyone who is affected by the actions, objectives or policies of an organisation
What is a key stakeholder?
- Owner of a company
- Supplier
- Community affected by the decision of an organisation
What can the law affect in a computer?
- Way computer systems are developed
- How computers are used
- How they are disposed of
What are the three acts you must know?
- Data Protection Act 2018
- Computer Misuse Act 1990
- Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988
What is the Data Protection Act 2018 designed for?
Protect people’s personal data
What is the Computer Misuse Act 1990 designed for?
- Prevent unauthorised access
- Prevent hacking of programs or data
What is the Copyrights Designs and Patent Act 1988 designed for?
- Protect the creators of books, music, videos and software from having their work illegally copied
What is a software license?
License agreement giving permission to an individual or organisation to use a piece of software
What is Open Source software?
- Software licensed for use
- No charge for license
- Anyone can use it
- Must be distributed with source code so anyone can modify
What is Freeware?
- Free to use
- User does not get access to the source code
- Restrictions on its use
What is Proprietary software?
- Sold in form a license to use it
- Restrictions on how software is used
- Company or person who wrote the software holds the copyright
- No access to source code, not allowed to modify package, and not allowed to sell to other people as it will infringe copyright
What is the benefit of proprietary software?
- Support available from the company
- Regular Updates
- Technical Support Lines
What is metadata?
- Information includes telephone number, date, time, duration of call etc.
What are cookies?
Files that are sent by web servers to web browsers used to recognise the computer when you revisit a website, track navigation, analyse use to improve usability and personalise website for user.
