...requirements information data retention and disposal Watson Hall Ltd London 020 7183 3710 Edinburgh 0131 510 2001 info@watsonhall.com www.watsonhall.com Each type of data within an organisation should be identified and classified. Once this has been completed and during periodic reviews, it is necessary to define the retention and disposal policy. Business data records should be assessed for the statutory and legal requirements, business and accountability requirements and the risks associated with keeping or disposing of the data records. A records management system or schedule of data retention criteria can be used to document the data records, the requirements and the security controls needed for their identification, storage, protection, retrieval, retention and disposal. There are a large number of statutes, case law and regulations defining how long some data must be kept for before it is destroyed — some of which are outlined on the following pages. A few requirements such as records of wages apply to almost all sectors, but we have listed some specific requirements for the communications, financial and governmental sectors. Other sectors have equally important requirements. The exact minimum retention period varies with the specific data type, and the starting date is often context related e.g. period from an event like an accident, retirement or the advertisement of a product. This document is based on the previous work by InTechnology Ltd: Making Sense of Data...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper Joe Thomas BIS/220 August 21, 2012 Information Technology Acts Paper The computer and fraud and Abuse Act was established in 1986. This act replaces the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Act Of 1968. This act only protected those communications that were heard by a land phone, or by someone talking and being overheard. The computer and Fraud and Abuse Act was intended to extend federal wiretap laws to too new forms of communication (US Government,1968). The law intended to reduce the cracking of computer systems and address the computer related offences. The act governs cases where new technology that is used by the federal or state governments, or certain financial institution are involved where the crime is interstate or where computers are used in interstate or foreign commerce. Since the act was established in 1986 alterations have been made to allow for the expansion of protection to computer terminals and networks in both the private and commercial sectors. The purpose of this is to not allow any foreign software where the intent is to harm the computer. It also does not allow a foreign party to access the computer to gain any information that is not permitted. The Do-Not-Call implementation Act of 2003 was passed to protect consumers from unwanted calls from telemarketers. The Federal Trade Commission may impose fees to enforce the provisions relating to the “do-not-call” registry of the Telemarketing Sales Rule, promulgated...
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...used as grading elements. Also, at present, WritePoint cannot detect quotations or block-quotes, so comments in those areas should be ignored. Please see the other helpful writing resources in the Tutorials and Guides section of the Center for Writing Excellence. Thank you for using WritePoint. Information Technology Acts Joey Griffith BIS/220 August 28, 2012 Dr. Kathryn Moland University of Phoenix Information Technology Acts The Do Not Call Implementation act of 2003 is a registry list that will not allow telemarketers to call and harass everyone daily (Do-Not-Call Implementation Act Law & Legal Definition, 2001-2012). The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 is a law that works to partially to deregulate the financial industry. Both of these acts were put into place to help the...
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...Running Head: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACTS Information Technology Acts BIS/220 The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and Do Not Call Implementation Act are two necessary laws that help protect the consumers. These were put in place to prevent harassment to the consumer. The technology in telecommunication has improved in so many ways that rules were a must in the growing out of control Telemarketing industry. The rules were basic and simple in a couple ways, and with the rule made this industry more ethical and tolerable by the consumers. The TCPA made the rules of calls are only aloud between the hours of 8:00 am to 9:00pm local times. Another is there is not mechanical voices allowed. The Do Not Call Implementation Act goes hand in hand with TCPA. The List was signed in by President Bush on Sept 2003. This would allow the consumer the ability to get on the do not call list for 5 years. Then in 2007 it was changed that once on the list you did not come off. Before the rules came into effect the telecommunication industry was able to do whatever it wanted and with no cost to consumer wellbeing. They would call at any hour of the day even sometimes from different time zones. Making them the most despised industry in the word. But the corporate world and owners did not care because this was a Billion dollar industry. With that type of money the better the technology became and the more money they made. But thanks...
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...Don’t Call Implementation Act, 2003 And Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 1988 Bryan Allen BIS/220 December 11th, 2012 Jadie Giorgis Has there ever been a time when dinner is just about to start and in the middle of saying prayer the phone rings? Dad gets up to answer the phone and on the other end is a telemarketer. The telemarketer is trying to sell something and dad isn’t interested; its dinner time he says, or maybe it is some voice recording selling something. It has happened to just about everyone. Because there have been advances in information technology; the result has been the creation of Acts of Congress to address the ethical issues which could violate our right to privacy. In this essay two Acts will be discussed: The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 and The Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003. Both acts have to deal with our rights to privacy. “In 1991, Congress passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the first federal law regulating the actions of legitimate telemarketers. Its purpose is to strike a balance between protecting the rights of consumers and allowing businesses to use telemarketing effectively. Regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), this law requires telemarketers to formalize their existing policies and, where necessary, create new ones to bring their operations into compliance with the following main restrictions” (code of ethics, 2005)...
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...Computer Communication Acts Carla Brooks BIS/ 220 October 8, 2012 Professor W. Paul Borowski Have you ever been sitting at home at dinnertime and the phone rings? Everyone jumps to get the phone; on the other end of the line is a person trying to sell you windows, doors, or something else. It is one of the most annoying phones calls of the day because, that is the time of day that everyone is sitting down and relaxing and being a family. There are two acts in place to help with the calls from telemarketers. Unfortunately, there are rules to every act and they may not stop all telemarketing calls but will help with them. One act is the “Do not Call Implementation Act of 2003” and the other is the “Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 also known as the United States Congress passed TCPA in 1991. President George H. W. Bush signed act and passed as a law but it was a revision of the Communications Act of 1934. The TCPA act helps with the restricting telephone calls from solicitors and the use of automated telephone equipment. As time progress and new advancements made in the communication world amendments’ will continue to made to these types of acts. In 1991, Congress passed the TCPA due to the advancement in communication technologies such as the automatic dialing systems, artificial or prerecorded voice messages, SMS text messages, and fax machines. (Wikipedia, 2012) The advances in communication that brought...
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...1980’s when companies began to use the telephone in order to market and sell their new products. There have been two Acts passed in order to attempt to alleviate this problem of telemarketing and also to keep the privacy of people’s homes a sacred thing. The first Act is the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) which was passed in 1991 due to the rising amount of solicitation calls to consumers in the privacy of their own homes. This Act determined rules that all telemarketing companies were to abide by when soliciting consumers in the privacy of their own homes. A few of the rules were such things as providing the consumer with the solicitors name, the company they are calling on behalf of, and a valid address and phone number that the company can be contacted at. The Act also limited the hours in which solicitors were able to make phone calls to consumers in their homes to between 8 A.M. and 9 P.M. as well as being required to abide by a “do not call list” which consumers can request to be placed on so that no further contact from that company may be made to them. On June 11th, 2003 President George W. Bush signed the Do-Not-Call Implementation Act into law. The Do-Not-Call Implementation Act is a supplement to the TCPA which attempts to further negate unwanted solicitation calls. Any companies that do not abide be these laws can be lawfully sued by consumers as well as the State being able to initiate a civil action lawsuit...
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...Information Technology and the Rise of Ethical Issues The purpose of this research is to identify what are the advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 1991, and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), 1998. To start examining the ethical issues of each act it was necessary to understand the meaning of the act and who the act affected. Each act applied to different age groups yet pertained some of the same ethical issues for the creation of each act. Once the meaning behind the acts were identified, the ethical issues were easy to recognize. Information Technology Information technology dramatically has changed the course of business in a rapid pace toward humanity. These advancements have made conducting business effective and efficient by the use of larger data storage, auto dialers, auto recordings, and identifiers, such as cookies or IP addresses to learn personal information. However, these advancements come with drawbacks that include morally and ethically wrong destruction toward individuals with their privacy and safety. Creation of Acts The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 1991 was established for the consumers that did not wish to have telemarketers calling. The advancements in technology were enabling businesses to call residential phone numbers as well as sending facsimiles to market and sell products. The phone calls were not...
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...Information Technologies Acts Information Technologies Acts The two acts that have been chosen for this paper are the Do Not Call Act of 2003 and the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000. I chose these because these are two of the biggest issues plaguing society today. It is always an ongoing battle to find and implement ways to protect children from the ever expanding corruptness that this world is throwing at us daily. It is also a never ending battle to keep us safe from harassment. The Children’s Internet Protection Act was passed to help keep children’s use of the internet in libraries and school safe and free of information and images children should not be exposed to. As Information Technology continues to grow and comes up with new ways to get the information out and people are intelligent enough to link undesirable information such as pornographic materials, sexually explicit materials, Etc. We as a society needed to find ways to keep our children from getting corrupted by such vulgarity. Thus the Children’s Internet Protection Act was born. It helps to ensure that our children are not exposed to information and materials not appropriate for them. It requires libraries and schools to implement filters to block inappropriate material from being viewed by children. The Do Not Call Act of 2003 was implemented to provide a regulation from harassment by telemarketers if their phone number is on a do not call list. As technology has expanded, it has become increasingly...
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...Information Technology Acts As Information Technology advances on a daily basis major ethical issues arise along with it. Information technology improves ways of communication in both business settings, and personal life settings. Information technology advances are resulting to major ethical issues which include: easy access to sensitive information, and privacy (Vandenbosch, 2004). The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 and the Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 are acts that were created as direct results of information technology advancements. I believe the advancement of communicational devices has created new ethical issues for the society which necessitated the creation of both the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, and the Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003. Both acts prohibit blocked unsolicited advertising via communicational devices. Getting a phone call at odd hours from a telemarketer can be very annoying; this is one of the ethical issues that came up. It is unethical to call someone to try and sell something they are not interested in, and to make matters worse you get the phone call around 6.00 AM in the morning or at 10.00 PM. Despite wanting to advertise or sell to consumers; this is not ethical. Consumers are protected from receiving unwanted phone calls from telemarketers. The Telephone Consumer Act was implemented to stop the telemarketers and to regulate the selling of personal information, and to restrict calling residential...
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...Quit calling and annoying me David Vickrey BIS/220 March 6, 2014 University of Phoenix Quit calling and annoying me Advances in Information Technology (IT) are meant to improve certain aspects within our lives. However, IT advances are resulting in a growing amount of ethical issues. Access to specific consumer demographic information basically became potential leads for telemarketing organizations. Once these leads were accessed, telemarketing businesses used call centers to push the products or services they sold. The ethical issues associated with IT advancements are ease of access to sensitive information, privacy, property and accuracy. Ethical issues due to advances in IT called for the creation of new acts to protect consumers. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991 and the Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 are two examples of Acts created as direct results of IT advancements coupled with ethical issues. The TCPA, enacted by Congress in 1991, restricts the making of telemarketing calls and the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages. The rules apply to common carriers as well as to other marketers. In 1992, the Commission adopted rules to implement the TCPA, including the requirement that entities making telephone solicitations institute procedures for maintaining company-specific do-not-call lists. In 2003, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revised its TCPA rules to establish...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper Esan Williams BIS/220 June 11, 2012 Professor Evie Garrreau Advances in information technology (IT) are meant to improve various aspects of life. Unfortunately, IT advances are resulting in a growing amount of ethical issues. The major ethical issues associated with IT advancements are privacy, property, accuracy, and ease of access to sensitive information. Privacy can easily be breached when information is stored in databases and shared over networks. Ethical issues due to advances in IT call for the creation of new acts to protect consumers. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991 and the Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 are two perfect examples of Acts being created as direct results of IT advancements coupled with ethical issues. The advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of the TCPA of 1991 and the Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 consisted of computer networks, predominantly the Internet, allowing organizations to collect, combine, store, and share massive amounts of data on institutions, groups, even individuals (Rainer & Cegielski, 2011). Access to specific consumer demographic information basically became potential leads for telemarketing organizations. Once the leads were accessed, telemarketing businesses used call centers to push the products or services they sold. IT advances forced Congress’ hand to offer some semblance...
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...Computer Communication Acts Carla Brooks BIS/ 220 October 8, 2012 Professor W. Paul Borowski Have you ever been sitting at home at dinnertime and the phone rings? Everyone jumps to get the phone; on the other end of the line is a person trying to sell you windows, doors, or something else. It is one of the most annoying phones calls of the day because, that is the time of day that everyone is sitting down and relaxing and being a family. There are two acts in place to help with the calls from telemarketers. Unfortunately, there are rules to every act and they may not stop all telemarketing calls but will help with them. One act is the “Do not Call Implementation Act of 2003” and the other is the “Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 also known as the United States Congress passed TCPA in 1991. President George H. W. Bush signed act and passed as a law but it was a revision of the Communications Act of 1934. The TCPA act helps with the restricting telephone calls from solicitors and the use of automated telephone equipment. As time progress and new advancements made in the communication world amendments’ will continue to made to these types of acts. In 1991, Congress passed the TCPA due to the advancement in communication technologies such as the automatic dialing systems, artificial or prerecorded voice messages, SMS text messages, and fax machines. (Wikipedia, 2012) The advances in communication that brought...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper Mary Pickens BIS/220 September 6, 2012 Arthur Ward Information Technology Acts Paper There were many advances in the information technology industry that resulted in new ethical and legal issues deeming it necessary for the government to create and also implement Acts. The two that will be discussed in this paper are the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991. This paper will explain why these Acts were created and what they are to protect against. The Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 was created to promote accuracy, fairness, and the right to privacy of personal information assembled by Credit Reporting Agencies. These agencies create and compile information into reports on individuals and companies for businesses who may be issuing lines of credit or any other business dealing with lending money or receiving payments. Requesting these credit reports include organizations such as credit card companies, banks, employers, and in many cases landlords. What the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 does is provides important protection for consumer investigatory reports, credit reports, and employment background checks. The Act was created due to the growth of the Retail credit industry and their ability to buy many of the smaller credit reporting agencies that were now expanding their business to insurers and employers. This gave them the power to deny services and opportunities...
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...Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 1991 Juel A. Todman BIS/220 Introduction to Computer Application and Systems June 16, 2014 Dr. David Wagner Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 1991 Advances in Information Technology have made access to sensitive information with great concern. Privacy has to be paramount as the internet broadens its horizon strategically. Various acts had to be implemented to protect the privacy of individuals. The act that I am going to talk about is the Telephone Consumer Act of 1991, (TPCA). The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 was passed and enacted by Congress, in response to consumer concerns about the growing number of unsolicited telephone calls by telemarketers and the increasing use of automated and prerecorded messages. In response, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted rules that require anyone making telephone solicitation calls to your home must provide their names, and the name of the person or company on whose behalf the call was being made. The rules also prohibited telephone solicitation calls to your home before 8 am or after 9 pm, and required telemarketers to comply with any do-not-call request you make directly to the caller during the solicitation call. The implementation of the National Do-Not-Call Registry informed Telemarketers that they had up to 31 days from the day you registered your telephone number to remove it from their call lists. In June 2003, the FCC supplemented...
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