1. Describe four ethical issues that arise when storing electronic information about individuals.
A lot of ethical issues could arise when storing electronic information about individuals. One ethical issue is the inappropriate use of sensitive data. This is one of the worst things that can happen to a person online. A person could lose or another person can get a hold of someone’s credit card information, IP address, house address, or even medical records! These sets of information are extremely sensitive and if they get into the wrong hands they can be used against you and could cause a lot of potential harm. A second ethical issue that could arise when storing information electronically could be holding onto a person’s private information for longer than supposed to. This could happen anywhere whether you use a credit card buying something inline or give your medical info to get some medication. Anybody could keep your personal info past what the time they were supposed to have it for. A third ethical issue that could arise when storing information electronically could be the selling of personal information. This ethical issue ties into the last one. Someone could hold onto your information to sell it which could lead to widespread knowledge of your personal information. Which could be detrimental to you depending on what it is. The fourth ethical issue that could arise when storing information electronically could be the inability of alerting the individual breaching of their information. This is a very uncommon mistake you see corporations make, but it can happen. This is a problem because someone doesn’t have the ability to change their information because it’s no longer safe.
2. Compare cybersecurity risks in the U.S. and other countries.
The risks in America aren’t as much as in other countries. Especially if we are talking about third-world countries or even poorer countries than our own. America is very advanced compared to the rest of the world when it comes to technology, thus we have more protection when it comes to cybersecurity.