Computer Science - Legislation

The Data Protection Act makes hacking illegal

• True
• False

The Data Protection Act can be summed up with eight ‘Principles’

• True
• False

If you don’t put a copyright notice on your work, anyone can steal it

• True
• False

Patents last forever

• True
• False

Copyright lasts even after the author’s death

• True
• False

The government may charge for Freedom of Information Act requests

• True
• False

Making malware is illegal, even if you never send it to anyone

• True
• False
  False

If I say that ‘I didn’t know I was doing anything wrong’ I should be ok

• True
• False

Before the Computer Misuse Act, hacking was not illegal

• True
• False

The government must publish most of its information publically

• True
• False