Ethical impact of IT

Hello, I am a student officially studying IT diploma level 2 and today, I would be talking you through ethical impact of IT

Data protection

Within the second half of the 20th century organisation, business and also the government all began to using computers to save information about their customers, clients and staff in databases for an example:

Name

Addresses

Contact information

Employment history

Medical condition

Conviction

Credit history


Databases are really simple to use, but they take some time to edit or add details within the bases.
The purpose of saving data protection on computers is that, it is faster to find information from the computer than through paper files. The second purpose of saving and adding data protection onto computers is because sometimes files could go missing but through computer they cannot go missing because they are save into the computer.





Source used: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ict/legal/0dataprotectionactrev1.shtml
Source: class lessons