The first main ethical issue that comes with storing electronic information about individuals is potential risks and attacks. When electrical storing information, it is automatically open to risk of threats and attacks by hackers based off of how secure it is. The next issue leading from potential cyber risks and threats is exposure of information. This could hurt the individual or a company with possible passwords and usernames stored. The exposure is a loss from the threats and cyber-attacks that could occur. Another issue alongside exposure is that when storing information electronically the severity of secureness differs. The secureness is not the same if you would have written the information down and filed it in the house. It is now unsecure allowing it to be in a platform that is known that potential other individuals can see. The last ethical issue with electronically storing information about individuals is accessibility. It may be hard to access the information after it is stored. If an individual stored it they will obviously need it at some time. That could be an issue regarding getting to the individual’s information. That would not be an issue if it was stored at the house or anywhere besides electronically. The United States has a high cybersecurity risk for being a target. Covid brought many systems to go online and people to work remotely. This has allowed a more open access to potential cybersecurity risks than before. Other countries were hit with the same thing after Covid as well. It is found that the United States is 31st in cybersecurity secureness (Bischoff, 2022). That is not terrible regarding 75 other countries are looked at. The United States is almost in the middle. Denmark is the safest in cybersecurity risks overall. Denmark has been the most secure in the past as well. Tajikistan was at the bottom making them the most unsecure of cybersecurity risks in the world (Bischoff, 2022).

References

Bischoff, P. (2022, September 28). Which countries have the worst (and best) cybersecurity?. Comparitech. https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/cybersecurity-by-country/