The Data Protection Act is a Legislation consisting of 8 Principles that are used to regulate companies on how they should handle people's personal information. It was established in 1998.

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A: E-commerce websites must clearly describe their products.

Q. What type of information can be requested

A. You can request information from some public sector organisations, eg:

• government departments, and other public bodies and committees
• local councils
• schools, colleges and universities
• health trusts, hospitals and doctors’ surgeries
• publicly owned companies
• publicly funded museums
• the police

A: The data subjects are safeguarded by a general right, which is that the EU institutions and bodies must process their personal data fairly and lawfully, and only for legitimate purposes.

A. The Computer Misuse Act is designed to protect computer users against wilful attacks and theft of personal information. It was established in 1990

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Trading standards professionals act on behalf of consumers and business. They advise on and enforce laws that govern the way we buy, sell, rent and hire goods and services.

Trading standards deal with the issues of:

You’ve been misled by the trader into buying something you wouldn’t have bought if you had been given all the information beforehand.

The trader has made false claims about goods or services which you have found out not to be true.

You’ve been sold fake or counterfeit goods.

The trader has used aggressive selling techniques or persuaded you to buy something you wouldn't necessarily have bought if you had a free choice.

You want information about a local trader, such as whether they’re still in business.

You want a professional opinion about whether you have a problem.

A- The Consumer Credit Act is a legislation which regulates consumer credit and consumer hire agreements. These agreements include personal loans, hire-purchase agreements, credit cards and store cards. It was established in 1974.

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The Freedom of Information Act 2000 provides public access to information held by public authorities.

It does this in two ways:

• public authorities are obliged to publish certain information about their activities; and
• members of the public are entitled to request information from public authorities.

The Act covers any recorded information that is held by a public authority in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and by UK-wide public authorities based in Scotland. Information held by Scottish public authorities is covered by Scotland’s own Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Public authorities include government departments, local authorities, the NHS, state schools and police forces. However, the Act does not necessarily cover every organisation that receives public money. For example, it does not cover some charities that receive grants and certain private sector organisations that perform public functions.

Recorded information includes printed documents, computer files, letters, emails, photographs, and sound or video recordings.

The Act does not give people access to their own personal data (information about themselves) such as their health records or credit reference file. If a member of the public wants to see information that a public authority holds about them, they should make a subject access request under the Data Protection Act 1998.

A: Before you can legally sell, publish or distribute someone else’s copyright work, you must obtain the permission of the copyright owner. This rule applies even if you are only using extracts or samples from the work. Then you should get permission and if you are using it commercially you might be expected to pay a small fee.

q. What are the electronic commerce regulations and when was
it established?

a. The electronic commerce regulations act was established in
2002. This means that a ecommerce site needs to be lawfully selling items
through commercial communication. Allows for businesses to add their addressand
domain name.