What is the importance of confidentiality and data protection?
Confidentiality in a virtual nursery and ask each team to work together on the scenarios. Invite responses from the teams feeding back to the whole group. Ask the group to evaluate the solutions. Ask learners to reflect on their own ability to maintain confidentiality and to write a short reflective account. Data protection activity in a virtual nursery. Facilitate a whole group discussion on any issues that learners have encountered with regard to the principles identified on the learner activity sheet. Ask teams to evaluate their own practice in the virtual work setting with reference to the Data Protection Act (1998). Ask learners to review the storage and access procedures in their virtual work setting as a result of the discussion. Amendments to the work setting layout plans may be needed. Hope it helps you. For more information http://www.iyogi.co.
This is two pronged thing. Firstly, for an individual it is important that their personal and confidential information is kept by organisations that have to have it in as secure an environment as possible and (in the UK) in line with the Data Protection Act 1998. Secondly, for an organisation confidnetiality and data protection are crucial in developing relationships with customers and suppliers, using information responsibly and staying on the right side of the law. There are also issues in terms of reputational loss in the event that information which should be kept confidential is lost or gets into the public domain. There are issues of privacy and identity theft in such cases. The example last year of PA Consulting – one of their staff lost a information relating to many indivuiduals and lost major government contracts because of it. There is also much less chance of them getting new business due to the ineptness of their security around confidential/personal information. So, it is
