Impact of Technology

Which of these options most accurately and comprehensively explains ‘legal impact’?

• Using the law to help sue computer companies.

• Using virtual juries in criminal cases.

• The law prevents cybercrime.

• Technology provides opportunities to criminals. To help protect people, their data, and their work, several laws have been introduced in the UK.

Which of these options lists the laws in the right order (oldest to newest)?

• Copyright, Design and Patents Act; Computer Misuse Act; Data Protection Act; Freedom of Information Act

• Copyright, Design and Patents Act; Computer Misuse Act; Freedom of Information Act; Data Protection Act

• Computer Misuse Act; Freedom of Information Act; Data Protection Act; Copyright, Design and Patents Act

• Computer Misuse Act; Data Protection Act; Copyright, Design and Patents Act; Freedom of Information Act

Which regulation introduced by the EU caused the UK to have to update its original 1998 Data Protection Act to a new version 20 years later?

• The General Data Protection Regulation

• The Freedom of Information Act

• The Computer Misuse Act

• The Copyright, Design and Patents Act

Which of these are data subjects?

• Taxpayers

• People with computers

• Everyone

• People resident in the UK

Which one of these is a responsibility that organisations have to their data subjects?

• Personal data must be fairly and lawfully processed.

• They should not charge more than is necessary for their services.

• To keep their data forever.

• They should never pass their data on to other organisations.

Which one of these is another responsibility that organisations have to their data subjects?

• Personal data must be fairly and lawfully processed

• Organisations must keep data subjects’ data safe.

• To keep their data forever.

• They should never pass their data on to other organisations.

Which explanation of the word ‘stakeholder’ is most accurate?

• The owner of a company.

• It means the same as ‘data subject’.

• A user of a specific technology.

• Stakeholders are groups or individuals who will be affected by, or can change, the way that the technology is used.

Which explanation of the right to be forgotten is most accurate?

• The right to be forgotten (part of GDPR) means that an individual can request that an organisation erases all their personal data.

• The right to be forgotten (part of GDPR) means that a company has five years during which it can hold an individual’s data.

• The right to be forgotten (part of GDPR) means that a company has to look after an individual’s data very carefully.

• The right to be forgotten (part of GDPR) means that an individual does not have to remember to pay a company, but should be reminded.

Which of these can be protected by the Copyright, Design and Patents Act?

• An algorithm in pseudocode

• An algorithm, but only once the source code has been created

• Only tangible things like a picture or a hard copy of a book

• Anything

When is it legal to copy, publish, distribute, or sell copyrighted material?

• When you are the copyright holder

• When you have the copyright holder’s permission

• When the copyright holder has chosen to give up their copyright

• Each of the above