key legal considerations and laws

Freedom of information act - the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has provided the public the right to request access to records from any federal agency. It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government.

intellectual property act - Intellectual property (IP) refers to the ownership of an idea or design by the person who came up with it. It gives a person certain exclusive rights to a distinct type of creative design, meaning that nobody else can copy or reuse that creation without the owner's permission.

GDPR - the GDPR establishes rules on how companies, governments and other entities can process the personal data of citizens who are EU citizens or residents. The GDPR aims to strengthen and unify data protection laws for all individuals across the European Union.

Copyright, designs, and patents act - gives creators of digital media the rights to control how their work is used and distributed. Anything which you design or code is automatically copyrighted and may not be copied without your permission

libel - a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation

Slander - known as oral or spoken defamation, slander is the legal term for the act of harming a person's reputation by telling one or more other people something that is untrue and damaging about that person.