The four ethical issues that come to my mind when I think of storing the electronic information of individuals are selling that information, abusing that information, irresponsibly securing that information, and finally sharing that information without the knowledge of the individual. All of these issues have been in the news recently with many big tech companies being accused of these issues. I find it particularly troubling when companies sell the information of an individual. These companies harvest the private information of millions of people and sell it to the highest bidder. This type of information harvesting is one of the biggest problems in the data storage industry. Companies like Facebook are able to make billions of dollars selling this info from their unknowing users. These companies that harvest the data generally don’t maintain the best security with this information as well. There have been hundreds of massive data leaks in which personal information has been revealed in its entirety to the internet. These types of data leaks are generally of little or no impact to many of these companies, so they generally do not have a large incentive to maintain secure data storage. Even when data is leaked, these companies do not own up to it. Even if the data was securely stored, the companies themselves abuse this data for their own personal gain. Google AdSense is a perfect example of a massive user reliant scam. A massive cookie based program that collects any and all information that it can from a user in order to market products to that very user. This blatant abuse of a user’s information makes Google incredible amounts of money. A more recently scrutinized issue is the unauthorized sharing of personal information. Through long terms of service and purposefully confusing wording companies are able to claim that users agreed to these predatory uses of their information. Companies are wholly irresponsible with user information and eventually these issues are going to come to a head.