1st assignment in finals

OECD Guidelines

Though they are not law in the United States, the privacy guidelines issued by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 1980 are an important part of privacy debates today. The OECD consists of bureaucrats from 29 countries that work to coordinate policies with the aim of fostering international trade. The United States is a member of the OECD and one of the largest funders of its $200 million dollar annual budget. The Secretariat of the OECD is in Paris, France.

The Guidelines involve eight principles, which in different variations are often touted as "fair information practices":

1. Collection Limitation Principle: There should be limits to the collection of personal data and any such data should be obtained by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the data subject.
2. Data Quality Principle: Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which they are to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, compete and kept up-to-date.
3. Purpose Specification Principle: The purposes for which personal data are collected should be specified not later than at the time of collection and the subsequent use limited to the fulfillment of those purposes or such others as are not incompatible with those purposes and as are specified on each occasion of change of purpose.
4. Use Limitation Principle: Personal data should not be disclosed, made available or otherwise used for purposes other than those specified in accordance with Principle 3 except:
* with the consent of the data subject; or
* by the authority of law.
5. Security Safeguards Principle: Personal data should be protected by reasonable security safeguards against such risks as loss or unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure of data.
6. Openness Principle: There should be a general policy of openness about developments, practices and policies with respect to personal data. Means should be readily available of establishing the existence and nature of personal data, and the main purposes of their use, as well as the identity and usual residence of the data controller.
7. Individual Participation Principle: An individual should have the right:
* (a) to obtain from the data controller, or otherwise, confirmation of whether or not the data controller has data relating to him;
* (b) to have communicated to him, data relating to him
o within a reasonable time;
o at a charge, if any, that is not excessive;
o in a reasonable manner; and
o in a form that is readily intelligible to him;
* (c) to be given reasons if a request made under sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) is denied, and to be able to challenge such denial; and
* (d) to challenge data relating to him and, if the challenge is successful, to have the data erased, rectified, completed or amended.
8. Accountability Principle: A data controller should be accountable for complying with measures which give effect to the principles stated above.

"Privacy"

• The ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share basic common themes.

• Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity, the wish to remain unnoticed or unidentified in the public realm. When something is private to a person, it usually means there is something within them that is considered inherently special or personally sensitive.

"PRIVACY PROTECTION AND THE LAW"

• Privacy law is the area of law concerned with the protection and preservation of the privacy rights of individuals. Increasingly, governments and other public as well as private organizations collect vast amounts of personal information about individuals for a variety of purposes.

• The law of privacy regulates the type of information which may be collected and how this information may be used.

1. You are the CEO of a three-year-old software manufacturer that has several products and annual revenues in excess of 500 million dollars. You've just received a recommendation from the manager of software development to hire three notorious crackers to probe your software products in an attempt to identify any vulnerabilities. The reasoning is that if anyone can find a vulnerability in your software, they can. This will give your firm a head start on developing parches to fix the problems before anyone can exploit them. You're not sure, and feel uneasy about hiring people with criminal records and connections to unsavory members of the hacker/cracker community. What would you do?

Ans.
No, because we can't sure the safety of our company, if we have a problem we can hire a professional I.T. graduate to help us to fixed any problem.







4. Your friend just told you that he is developing a worm to attack the administrative systems at your college. The worm is "harmless" and will simply cause a message - "Let's party!" - to be dispalyed on all workstations on Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. By 4 p. m., the virus will erase itself and destroy all evidence of its presence. What would you say or do?

Ans.
I will discourage him to stop his plan because many people put in danger situation although the virus is harmless because that is the beginning of large virus.

Are IT workers professional?
why?

• Yes, ones you have finished this kind of course and you have a regular job, people says you are a professional person. IT graduate is important not only in call center but also in office where the employe use a computer to work. Some other job should have a background in using computer's and other student finished their job will proceed in 2years or 4years course in IT to gain a knowledge in programming.