The Legal Bit

As part of the last module of '23 Things' I've been viewing some videos with regard to Internet security and privacy; things such as child protection, data protection, copyright, libel and data security.

My employers' ICT use policy offers the following:

Data protection - Users must only attempt to access resources they have rights to access, not let unauthorized persons access material, give out private/ unauthorized information.

Copyright and Creative Commons - Users must not breach copyright laws, must adhere to licensing rules of use of software, observe terms of use when copying/adapting material.

Libel, defamation, harassment and loss of reputation - precludes any use of material which could be considered or interpreted as offensive. Anything that might be considered illegal, indecent or promoting anti-social attitudes (eg racism, discrimination) is prohibited.

Data Security - Users must never impersonate others or use another person’s login.

In my job I must not give out private information, for example one customer might ask me for another customer's address. Giving out this information would breach the Data Protection Act. I also have to be aware of copyright law, for instance when a customer would like to photocopy pages from a book or if they are attempting to illegally copy a CD.

I might be carrying on with further '23 Things' modules - watch this space.

Delicious and Wordle!

I have now explored the Delicious website! I had never used this before so it was all new to me but I have now saved a new bookmark and performed searches. The searches threw up some interesting results. I would not have considered using this site as a 'search engine' before but I will now bear it in mind for future use. After exploring Delicious I had a look at www.wordle.net and created a tag cloud. OMG!! It was amazing!! I wondered why some of the words had appeared in the cloud; words such as Arsenal and York, but then I realised that it had picked words I had used in my 23 Things Blog. How very clever! I think that in addition to Delicious, Wordle could also be a very interesting and useful website for me to use in future. Both these sites have fascinating benefits to users searching for specific words and I enjoyed learning about them.

Here is the Tag Cloud I created on Wordle: