Privacy and Legal Issues in Databases

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This paper takes a look at the ethical and legal issues associated with both the creation and use of data in databases. Many databases contain private information about individuals, and the paper looks at the threat posed by the easy access to this information. The paper also mentions some measures that IT departments can take to help safeguard the information in their databases, but also notes the limitations to these measures.

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"In the past, one could access the public records by traveling to the courthouse or to the government office. In recent years, however, a growing number of government agencies and court systems have made these records available on the Internet databases. It might be considered useful that the public can access government records easily via the Internet. But these open records can create havoc from the hands of miscreants, if they can access other related information from the databases. Many of the individuals, when gain the access from electronic public records, use these data for secondary purposes. The solution for IT is not to prohibit public records altogether from the Internet, but records should be selectively used so that public cannot gain access to the confidential information. IT department can, instead, use some bogus data records to check the break-in in the databases (DeGeorge, 1986)."

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