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These laws also emphasize that obtaining such personal information and how it will be used should be made with the individual's knowledge and consent. Moreover, individuals also have the additional rights of viewing, correcting, and deleting the information pertaining to them. But do we really have access to all information that is being taken from us? We can never tell and we might end waking up one day being accused by actions we haven't taken or worst waking up with a different identity.
II. Security of the Data Gathered Just imagine if the actual programmers have a backdoor to all the information of the system they designed, which is not far from reality.
Database Systems are designed and programmed by no less than humans. Securing these databases involves the protection against unauthorized disclosures, alteration and destruction. Security that focuses on stopping people without database access from having any form of access at all and stopping people with access to perform any data manipulation that are not part of their duties or not included in the main reasons of acquiring the data.
The Data Protection Act places restrictions on databases that contain personal and sensitive information. Although a database may be legal, it doesn't necessarily mean that the data will be used ethically. For example, the existence of hospital records is legal in itself. However, inadequate security may lead insurance companies to use this information to reject life insurance applications.
We need to consider several factors of security:
On the actual premises where the data is stored, on who can access the building or the room where the database runs and is accessed.
The ease and reliability of database systems cannot be questioned but are they protected enough? It might just be a set of letters and numbers but these letters and numbers could dictate how we run our lives. Movies like The Net, Minority Report and Hackers are fictitious movies based from exaggerated facts, but these represent a major concern that should be addressed immediately.
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ALR (Feb 06, 2006) Regulation of Data Brokerage Retrieved June 03, 2006 at http://courseblog.cs.princeton.edu/spring06/wws528f/?author=15
Computer Underground Digest #6.27 (Mar 27, 1994). Retrieved June 03, 2006 from "Ethical issues in hacking and piracy"
Data Protection Act 1998. Retrieved June 03, 2006 at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1998/19980029.htm
Right of self-decision, self-control on one's own personal information" Retrieved June 03, 2006 at http://rights.jinbo.net/english/privacy.html
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