Describe four ethical issues that arise when storing electronic information about individuals.
Storing your personal information is hard enough; however, when it comes to storing other people’s personal information and data, you open up Pandora’s box of ethical issues that ensue. Sure, the “cloud” would be the simple solution, but there are problems. The first and most obvious issue is the storage handlers inappropriately use the data they are trusted to hold, hoarding a client’s information for long periods after the client time window is over. Those are only the holding on ethical information problems. Other problems that ensue are the selling of personal data stored to the highest bidder or, perhaps the worst of them all, having your information stolen and not being told by the company or holder. All four of these issues are big problems since there is a significant lack of ethical awareness and corporate greed among businesses; looking at you, Zuckerberg.
Compare cybersecurity risks in the U.S. and another country.
When debating the topic of cybersecurity risks, I immediately think of the United States and Japan. The two technological powerhouses, when it comes to electronics and media, with that said the two tech powerhouses must have substantial cybersecurity standards to back up all that tech. However, as in the last year of writing, I remember Twitch got hacked. The susceptible details of how much hackers had unleashed most of the site’s streamer’s income to the public were so much information being leaked that how some streamers fans watched made millions through advertisements. A more recent cybersecurity risk was the DDoSing of an American company, Blizzard Entertainment’s servers, upon the release of “Overwatch 2”. Finally, Sony, a massive entertainment company in Japan, had a cybersecurity problem with scalpers with the release of the Playstation 5 in November 2020. These scalpers had created code to buy as many consoles in the shortest amount of time, faster than any human could get their hands on one.