Four ethical issues that arise when storing information about an individual include confidentiality, accuracy, security, and accessibility. Security and confidentiality are similar, but they are both still very important. Keeping information secure online is important because people obviously do not want their private information being leaked to hackers, who can then release it to the public. Confidentiality is all about promising the security of this information online. If a company promises that your information will be secure, then they are promising the confidentiality of your information. A company can say that your information is secure, but they may not have certain guarantees for it. For example, if you click a grabber link on a company website, then it would be your fault and not the company’s fault. They can guarantee confidentiality with the information they have, but not if you do something yourself that exposes your information. The accuracy of information online for an individual is important because mistakes can be made with wrongly stored information. If a company accidentally switches your mailing address with someone else, then that other person gets your mail and gets your information delivered to their door. It goes both ways. Keeping accurate information secure in a database is ethically important to keeping individual’s information safe and secure. The accessibility of an individual’s information is also similar to the security of it. If somebody’s information is easily accessible, then it is not secure. If a company just had a username and password to get to stored information, then it is a little bit secure. That changes if someone has facial recognition, multifactor authentication, or even fingerprint scanning. To keep your information ethically accessible, there must be enough security for even an owner of the information to have to put a little bit more work into accessing it.