Unit 3 : Information Systems. Assignment 2 - Issues surrounding collecting and processing information. By Zeeshan Akhlaq.
Introduction: There are many issues that organisations can face revolving around the storage of information. The three main issues I will be talking about will include legal issues, ethical issues and operational issues. These will cover all the main points that clients will need to know about which can affect an organisation. Legal issues: These are very important for organisations as certain laws revolving around computers protects what they have from other people. These laws include the Data protection act (1998), Freedom of information act (2000) and Computer misuse act (1990). These acts are in place to provide organisations with guidelines on how to protect their data and what they can do with it. Data Protection Act (1998): This data protection act includes data which is taken from computers, this includes everything such as personal records about employees, business files and other things that link to the organisation. This protection act was put in to plac...