Information Technology Acts Paper BIS/220 December 17‚ 2012 Information Technology Acts Paper The advances in information technology have resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of many important acts. Two in particular acts are Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Children’s Internet Protection Act (2000). Both of these acts were implemented to protect humans from harmful content and healthcare information. The Health Insurance Portability and
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United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 are to be addressed in this paper. The advancement in information technology such as the world wide web‚ search engines‚ YouTube‚ and virtual databases have made it easily accessible to obtain personal information‚ but also grant anyone access to age-inappropriate sites. The United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (referred to in this article as the "Act") was an amendment to the Counterfeit
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INSTRUMENTS ACT‚1881 Definition of a Negotiable Instrument. The law relating to negotiable instruments is contained in the Negotiable Instruments Act‚ 1881. It is an Act to define and amend the law relating to promissory notes‚ bills of exchange and cheques. The Act does not affect the custom or local usage relating to an instrument in oriental language i.e.‚ a Hundi. The term "negotiable instrument" means a document transferable from one person to another. However the Act has not defined
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Chris Merriam-Leith DRUG AND MEDICAL Jan 20‚ 2010 History of the FD&C Act of 1938 The Food‚ Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&C) of 1938 was the final culmination of a series of legislative actions and tragic events in the United States that spanned a period between the years of 1820 to 1937. The final impetus for the passage of the FD&C act was a direct reactionary result for a series of tragic poisoning incidents that occurred before its enactment‚ as much as it was in response to a progressive series
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Zack Cearley 11/15/2012 Accounting 1101- Mason The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ often abbreviated as SOX‚ is a legislative act passed by Congress in response to the Enron and WorldCom financial scandals. The primary purpose of SOX is to protect shareholders from errors or fraudulent reporting by the company they have invested in. The Sarbanes-Oxley act is enforced by the Securities and Exchange Commission‚ a department dedicated to ensuring compliance to SOX from
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This booklet is provided free of charge ACT Preparing for the Assessment ® What’s Inside... ● Strategies to Prepare for the Test ● What to Expect on Test Day ● New Full-Length Practice Test 2003–2004 An ACT Program for Educational Planning IC 080192030 Preparing for the ACT Assessment ® Contents Additional ACT Preparation Materials 1. General Preparation for the ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Use of Calculators on the ACT Assessment Mathematics Test . . . . . . . .
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The Mental Health Act The mental health act is an act design to protect people with mental illness. It was originally written in 1983 and reformed in 2007. It sets out clear guidance for a health professional when a person may need to be taken into compulsorily detained in a hospital. This is known as sectioning. This helps carers who are unable to cope without help. People can be sectioned if the health care profession thinks they are a danger to themselves‚ they are a danger to another person
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AFFORDABLE CARE ACT 1 Affordable Care Act Upper Iowa University AFFORDABLE CARE ACT 2 Abstract The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) this law is the landmark health reform legislation passed by the 111th Congress and was signed into law on March 23‚ 2010. The legislation includes a long list of health-related provisions that began taking effect in 2010 and will continue to be rolled out over the next four years
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condition. To ameliorate involves making more tolerable or acceptable conditions that are hard to endure. The Amelioration act has been seen throughout history as a statue passed to improve the conditions of slaves in the British Caribbean colonies and it is important to understand that this Act did not require an end to the institution we now know as slavery. Slavery was a vicious act committed against humanity and within our own history; rebellions and revolts occurred for this very reason and in the
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The Welfare Reform Act Summary The Welfare Reform Act‚ also known as the “The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996”‚ was intentionally designed to help needy families with children dependents and/or people receiving Supplemental Security Income with cash benefits‚ who in turn would be eligible for Medicaid Health Insurance (Valerius‚ Bayes‚ Newby‚ & Seggern‚ 2008). The Welfare Reform Act replaced a program called “AFDC (Aid to families with dependent children)”
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