Data Protection and Security Quiz

The Freedom of Information Act 2000

The Data Protection Act 2018

The Computer Misuse Act 1990

The Equality Act 2010

To regulate internet usage

To protect individuals' personal data and privacy

To control software piracy

To manage company finances

Using your date of birth

Using a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols

Using the word 'password'

Using only numbers

To make data look attractive

To ensure data is correct and up to date

To increase data storage costs

To slow down data processing

Ignoring data backups

Regularly updating and archiving records

Sharing passwords with colleagues

Leaving computers unlocked

To make data entry more difficult

To ensure legal and regulatory requirements are met

To reduce the number of employees

To increase paperwork

Encrypting sensitive data

Using public Wi-Fi for confidential work

Regularly updating software

Using two-factor authentication

Ignore it

Report and correct it according to organisational procedures

Delete the entire database

Share it with others

Data must be kept for as long as possible

Data must be processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently

Data can be shared without consent

Data accuracy is not important

To restrict employee access to all data

To provide guidelines on how data should be handled and used

To increase data entry errors

To allow free sharing of data