As such, employees and contractors are encouraged to use ITRs to the fullest extent in pursuit of their Agency s goals and objectives. In the course of performing their jobs, Agency employees and contractors often have access to confidential or proprietary information, such as personal data about identifiable individuals or commercial information about business organizations. Under no circumstances is it permissible for employees or contractors to acquire access to confidential data unless such access is required by their jobs. Under no circumstances may employees or contractors disseminate any confidential information that they have rightful access to, unless such dissemination is required by their jobs. Copyright Protection Computer programs are valuable intellectual property.
Software publishers can be very aggressive in protecting their property rights from infringement.
In addition to software, legal protections can also exist for any information published on the Internet, such as the text and graphics on a web site. As such, it is important that users respect the rights of intellectual property owners. Users should exercise care and judgement when copying or distributing computer programs or information that could reasonably be expected to be copyrighted. Computer Viruses Users should exercise reasonable precautions in order to prevent the introduction of a computer virus into the local area or wide area networks. Virus scanning software should be used to check any software downloaded from the Internet or obtained from any questionable source.