Thursday 20 March 2008























this post is of pictures of eyes i croped in photoshop

Thursday 28 February 2008


a pic i edited

Tuesday 22 January 2008

the dpa and the dda

Task 1

DDA
Today we were asked to find information on The Disability Discrimination Act this is what I found.

The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 aims to end the discrimination that many disabled people face. This Act has been significantly extended, including by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005. It now gives disabled people rights in the areas of:
· employment
· education
· access to goods, facilities and services
· buying or renting land or property, including making it easier for disabled people to rent property and for tenants to make disability-related adaptations
The Act now requires public bodies to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people. It also allows the government to set minimum standards so that disabled people can use public transport easily.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) website offers further information, including details on the changes made by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005.
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) closed on 28 September 2007, but the website is still available and has plenty of information, including a brief overview with the key points of the Act. It also provides full versions in PDF (both Acts) and word (DDA 2005 only) format.

This information is from gov site

Task 2

DPA
This is the information I found on the Data Protection Act.
The Act requires that all staff and others who process or use any personal information must ensure that they adhere to the 8 data protection principles.
The principles are based on three key concepts:
Purpose – personal data must only be held for a clear purpose or purposesFairness – personal data must only be processed for legitimate purposesTransparency – data subjects must be given certain basic information about the personal data held about them
The Eight Principles:
1. Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully and, in particular, shall not be processed unless- (a) at least one of the conditions in Schedule 2 is met, and (b) in the case of sensitive personal data, at least one of the conditions in Schedule 3 is also met.
2. Personal data shall be obtained only for one or more specified and lawful purposes, and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes. 3. Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose or purposes for which they are processed. 4. Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date. 5. Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. 6. Personal data shall be processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects under this Act. 7. Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data. 8. Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.
I got all this information from northumbria uni