Legislation that Govern the Computing Profession

With the rapid growth of the computing industry over the last fifty years, many obstacles have arose and been brought to the attention of people involved in the computing world. These were things such as people's personal data accessed against their will, software copyright theft and various offensive or unlawful materials published on the Internet. With these various activities being carried out more and more as the computing industry grew the governments around the world …

…corrupt' has been interpreted widely. There are two principal defences under the Act - either that publication of the article/book is justified as being for the public good, on the basis that it is in the interests of science, literature, art or learning or other objects of general concern or that the 'publisher' had not examined the article/book and had no reasonable cause to suspect that it created an offence under the act.