Privacy Issues

Information technology makes it technically and economically feasible to collect, store, integrate, interchange and retrieve data and information quickly and easily.

This characteristic has an important beneficial effect on the efficiency and effectiveness of computer based information systems.

However, the power of information technology to store and retrieve information can have a negative effect on the right of privacy of every individual.

For example, confidential E-mail messages by employees are monitored by many companies. Personal information is being collected about individuals every time they visit a site on the World Wide Web.

Confidential information on individuals contained in centralized computer database by credit bureau, government agencies and private business firm has been stolen or misused, resulting in the invasion of privacy, fraud and other injustice.

The unauthorized use of such information has seriously damaged the privacy of individuals. Errors in such databases could seriously hurt the credit standing or reputation of an individual.

Privacy Issues