9 Security Of Data

9 Security Of Data

1. The data protection act

   • Set up in 1998
   • rules that provide the organisation with information about everyone involved.
   • Data must be kept within a law
   • The data controller must only use data for purpose and must ask
   • Must be relevant and not excessive
   • Accurate and up to date
   • Kept no longer than necessary
   • Data Subject must be able to view what is about them

2. Loyalty Cards

   • stores information about there customers
     • sees patterns in there shopping
     • help out with coupons from recent buys

3. Ways to keep your data safe

   • Passwords
     • People cannot just guess passwords
   • Firewalls
     • Denies people from accessing system
   • Screensavers
     • Computers now don't have a burn of a previous image on
   • Virus protection
     • Stop viruses from coping themself into other files
   • Encryption
     • Data is secured with a code