Privacy and surveillance

Computing

Impacts on society

Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Data Protection Act 2018.

Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Investigatory Powers Act 2016.

Investigatory Powers Act 2016 and Data Protection Act 2018.

Telecommunications Act 1984 and Investigatory Powers Act 2016.

Which two acts are designed to protect us from having our privacy exploited for nefarious or exploitative commercial purposes?

Phone companies and internet service providers are required to keep copies of users’ emails and browsing histories for 12 months.

Phone companies and internet service providers are required to keep copies of users’ emails and browsing histories forever.

The police have no right to look at private browsing histories.

The security services have no right to look at phone records.

The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 specifies the following

3. The following statement describes which Act? “It allows any Secretary of State to give secret directions to Ofcom or any providers of public electronic communications networks. For example, after the 9/11 attacks, our National Security Agency MI5 used the act to collect bulk telephone communications data.”

Businesses need to register to use CCTV with which organisation?

Internet service providers and advertisers.

Who could use or access your web browser history?

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