Describe four ethical issues that arise when storing electronic information about individuals.

The main ethical issue from storing data digitally would be that hackers are everywhere. They’re always out looking for something to hack for their own advantage. Whether it’s money, people’s information, or data that isn’t safe for the public to know, someone is out there trying to steal it from a computer system. Another reason for this is that people just want to hack sometimes just to do it. Some people do it even if there is no incentive at the end of their act. Another issue of security would be the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program that has become very popular over the last decade. The idea of BYOD was to make workers and students feel more free when it came to their free time at work and school. But this poses another security threat to their network with their being basically no way to have security for all of those devices at once. Many companies still don’t allow your own devices because of the high security risk that it poses to the community. Another issue for storing data online is when you are making a program, your security system for it may have already been compromised. During the process of making that program you may have not put in enough emphasis into security when you were making it. A lot of programs in the world do not put in good enough security efforts which then has that application fail miserably. One of the last issues would be that hackers are very smart at what they do. Most hackers move faster than a security professional. Most hackers are always trying to find a way in while security specialists are patching up those holes in their infrastructure. Hackers never stop until they get what they want while most of the security personnel just sit and wait for something to happen.