The Data Protection: How Your Personal Information is Used by Organisations, Businesses Or The Government

I have been researching the topic of legislation and the role it plays in GasconGames. In this Essay, I have researched three pieces of legislation, which includes the Data Protection Act, the Computer Misuse Act, and the Equality Act. In this essay, I will talk about the key features of each of these pieces of legislation and their relevance to Gascon Games in relation to the job role which I have chosen. This will be discussed with the use of references as a definition of each of the three pieces of legislation which I have chosen.

The lead programmer works from start to finish on the development and management of a game, while directing the team so they are on schedule and within budget. This ensures that everyone who uses data is responsible for said data. This means that anyone who uses data must adhere to the data protection principles, which include the fair and lawful use of data and that data is kept safe, secure, accurate, and, if needed, updated. There are 8 data protection principles, which employers must adhere to. As this role will be doing the hiring, this role is responsible to stick to this act. This is relevant to Gascon Games because it means that all information about employees and customers must be kept in accordance to the Data Protection Act. This means that it must be kept secure, accurate, must not be kept for longer than necessary and is used for its intended use. This piece of legislation makes it illegal to gain unauthorized access to a computer as well as its material, as well as access with an intention to commit a further offense. This act also covers modification of computer materials without the consent/authorization of the user. This is relevant to Gascon Games because this means that, as a lead programmer you are responsible for the team. You must ensure that the code done by the team adheres to the computer misuse act, meaning, it can’t contain a virus or any other malicious piece of code, for this would be in breach of the Computer Misuse Act. This piece of legislation ensures that all people are treated equally, regardless of race, religion or gender. This means that any hiring done by the lead programmer can’t be discriminatory. This means any and all hiring is done cannot be done based on these points.

In addition to this, employees of the same job cannot be discriminated in terms of pay, meaning one employee paid one amount a job, can’t have another in the same job being paid more – possibly discrimination. This is relevant to Gascon Games because this affects hiring, meaning, employees that have the same job in the company must be paid the same, regardless of their race, religion, gender or others. If they aren’t, this may be a violation of this act. This doesn’t affect the pay between employees which have different jobs, because it should be expected for employees who have different jobs to have different salaries.