Wallets and Databases

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This paper shows how the everyday contents of a personal wallet or purse comprises cards, memberships, registrations, and all kinds of information, which are based in various databases. Modern databases are used to collect and manage information, which affects virtually every area of contemporary life. For an example, the paper uses a person's credit card, by which personal and financial information are all stored in a variety of different databases.

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"As in other new technological arenas, legal decisions lag behind technical developments. Ethics fill the gap as people negotiate how use of electronic information should proceed. The following notes define the broad ethical issues now being negotiated. Since laws deciding some aspects of these issues have been made, these notes should be read in conjunction with Legal Issues in Electronic Information Systems.
Ethics include moral choices made by individuals in relation to the rest of the community, standards of acceptable behavior, and rules governing members of a profession. The broad issues relating to electronic information systems include control of and access to information, privacy and misuse of data, and international considerations. All of these extend to electronic networks, electronic databases, and, more specifically, to geographic information systems."

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