legal and ethical constraints

Legal and Ethical Constraints

· Dater protraction act
· Computer misuse act
· Obscene publication act

Dater protection act
The dater protection act is the storage of any dater you may give out, after giving dater out like personal information this has to be confidential to the company that you gave the dater to. If this dater gets into the wrong hands this means the company will be breaking the act. There is a penalty to this but it all depends on what is broken.
As an individual you have the rights under the dater protection act to get access, compensation and the prevention of processing.

Computer misuse act
The computer misuse act is based on if anyone uses a computer to secure information or dater held in a computer, this is just like hacking information and also making viruses for computers, the main penalty if you get caught doing this is up to five years imprisonment.

Obscene publications act
The obscene publications act is to prevent any obscene imagery and language aloud on the internet of television. The penalty if caught downloading this is six months imprisonment if caught uploading the images its two years imprisonment.
If you have any problems with any images on any websites or television commercials all you have to do is complain and if it has the right amount of complaints it will get taken off the site, this happened to the well known Shenell Perfume because in the television commercial they showed a dead woman.

· Racial act
· Disability act

Racial act
The racial act is to provide that on television or the internet that there are no racial images to cause any disagreement with any person. This means that it has to soot every person; this includes gender, age and race.




Disability act
This act is to help out disabled people in any way possible. This could include people with learning difficulties i.e. dyslexia, hearing impairments and vision impairments.
People with dyslexia find it hard to spell and sometimes find it hard to stare at a white screen for a long time so to help with this some computers are programmed to have a coloured screen to help with this and also if reading long paragraphs there would be a tool to make the computer read out what the paragraph says this will also help the visually impaired. To help people with hearing impairments you may have a signer if it’s on the television or if on the internet there will be subtitles to explain how to work things.



· Copyright act

Copyright act
The copyright act is to allow people to make rights of the own work i.e. Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse, this means if anyone was to take the creation of Mickey Mouse and use it to sell anything like a shoe or cloths Disney could take them to cough over this. Copyright also means that the author of the work may have control of and profit from the work. The copyright law also lasts up to between fifty to a hundred years after the author’s death, or a finity period for anonymous or corporate authorship.
This is also very closely based on the designers rights act.