Legal Aspects of the Internet

This is an example of a website that does not comply with the Disability Discrimination Act.

Websites must comply with the Disability Discrimination Act as an investigation carried out by The Disability Rights Commission found that many public websites practically ‘impossible’ for disabled people to use.
The main ‘types’ of websites that were the worst offenders were Banks, buying tickets & booking holidays online.
The ‘types’ of websites that were the most user friendly were Governments, business, leisure, e-commerce and web services.

The Act came into force October 1999 to ensure that companies and organisations provide the public with services reasonably accessible for people with disabilities.

The penalty for having such a website would be costly as someone with a disability may sue you.
The Website that you could go onto to enable you to design a website in accordance would be www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT.
The types of disabilities that you would have to consider would be epilepsy, vision impairments, deaf people, people with dexterity problems and people with autism.

The Data Protection Act 1998 has 3 concepts which are:

Obtaining
Holding
Disclosing

The Data Protection Act 1998 contains eight Data Protection Principles:

Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully.
Personal data shall be obtained only for one or more specified and lawful purposes, and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes.
Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose or purposes for which they are processed.
Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
Personal data shall be processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects under this Act.
Appropriate technical and organizational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.
Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.

The Data Protection Act 1998 applies to businesses that may deal with peoples personal details & such like.

Internet Safety - Outcome 4

I've been researching about all the different types of Internet safety packages that are available to everyone. I must admit I got pretty confused about all the 'genuine' packages that will truly work & others that won't do their 'jobs' so well.

For the Firewall packages I looked at Zone Alarm and Comodo Firewall Pro. I would recommend the Comodo Firewall Pro package as this one seemed to give you a better deal. You can download this one from their website www.personalfirewall.comodo.com for free, you get a full package which you can personalise to your own needs, you get a help FAQ's to help you as well as online technical help.

For the content-Filtering Packages I looked at Scrub IT & Norton Internet Security, I would recommend the Norton Internet Security package as it's well known & you get a full package from them for the cost of £49.99. You have to update it every year, to enable updates etc to be uploaded onto your computer, you can see screenshots on their website to see how easy it is to download & to use.

The Internet Security Packages were fairly confusing as well, the ones I looked at mainly were Norton 360 All-in- One Security Package & McAfee Total Protection. Again I would recommend the Norton 360 All-in-One Package as it's well known & very easy to use. The cost of the package is £69.99 which you need to update yearly as they are discovering new viruses all the time therefore the Norton Packages are always getting updated all the time. You can see screenshots of the packages & see how easy it is to install. You get very good technical support, you can contact them by e-mail, phone or have an online chat with them.

When creating a password you have to remember that you don't make it too easy for people to guess or 'hack' into. The best way to do this is to create passwords that contain both numbers & letters e.g h3av3n or i12rtA!nsws. Do NOT use personal information & don't use words like heaven as it doesn't take that long work your way through a dictionary to 'hack' into someones password.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

Happy New Year everyone!!!! Hope you all get everything you wish for in 2008 xXxXx