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The data protection act is the storage and handling of personal data.A company who handles data must make sure the data is
The data is up to date.
The data is relevant to what it is used for.
The data is secured.
The data can not
Not kept longer than necessary
Processed in line with your rights.
Fair and lawfully processed.
Not transferred to other countries without adequate protection.
If the data protection act is broken the you could face a fine or jail.
The data protection act can be related to the design world by if you had your own online shop and a customer was to pay for a piece of work online you are responsible for there card detail and then protecting it so no body Else can get hold of it.
The Computer Misuse Act.
This deals with viruses, hacking and copying, downloading illegal software/ unlicensed and unauthorised computer access. so it is to do with protected the computer system as a whole than just data. The best way to get around this is to have a strong computer policy with consequence making employees know that they can download stuff onto the works computer system. Also by training the staff and to get them into the habits of creating this like a decent password and locking or logging of the computer when they are not using it.
Obscene Publications
This is about suitable content for an audience. While there is some legal status to this area it is about ethics and peoples opinion on what is suitable.
You would not want blood guts and scenes of a mature nature being aimed at a young audience or be shown pre watershed on the television. As this may upset and offend certain people and should be shown or used else where.
So you need to try make everyone who see a poster or what not happy especial if it is for the public to see.
Regulators like Ofcom and the Advertising Standards Agency monitor this type of thing making sure what is suitable or not. If a publication gets so many complaints then it would be taken of the air.
What games and certainly films do is give them rating on ages that think are suitable for that film.
The one in Britain is the BBFC, British Board of Film Classification. In which they decide what is suitable for certain ages. they also do dvd and games. Though it should be noted that it does not stop buying someone buying/ getting hold of an 18 rated game who age is only seven.
Also the obscene Publication act deals with how somebody may react to a game, poster etc. If a game makes someone go out there in the real world and start killing people, i.e the game Manhunt which got banned because of this. Also games like Grand Theft Auto cause controversy every time a new game comes out due to its mature content and idea of just running over people for fun!
There are many media arguments weather or not that the films/ games etc do effect our mind or if the people who seemed to be affected to already be unstable. So may say that this argument of i saw it on a film to an easy way of getting out of it. While there is strong and weak evidence for and against both sides the regulators can not take any chances.
Disability
Making sure everybody can follow and see, hear what is going on.
People who are deaf you would have subtitles, or a signer so they can understand what is going on.
Blind people would introduce braille, and a reader, some sort of audio version.
People who find it hard to see may have a bigger size font.
Designers point of view you could have a custom keyboard with bigger keys so the letter can be printed bigger, or by having more colours and possibly a different layout to the qwerty.
Racial
This is ethical and can be about colour, religion and what not. Your work can not be bias in a way towards a certain group of people. it can not encourage racism and discrimination.