Journal Entry #3

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

~Some ethical issues arising from storing electronic information about individuals would be bias against the ideas surrounding this, lack of privacy and security for individuals with information stored, discrimination based on an individual’s information being stored, and harassment. Confidentiality is very important for individuals working within a business that applies this concept because it creates a safety net of protection from personal information being exposed un-necessarily. Displaying bias against the idea of having electronic information stored is one of the ethical issues that can arise because people may not want their information stored while others may not have an issue with this. The bias could come from the fact that people who are for the idea may override the people who do not want their information stored if there is more people who are for than against the idea. This idea would lead to a lack of privacy and security for those who don’t want their information stored. However, if more people want this to occur rather than those who are biased against the idea, then their personal information would potentially be exposed. Lets just say, for example, this is a company policy within the workplace that all employees who become managers and supervisors for high ranking companies have to have their electronic personal information stored within a computer system for purposes of technology advancement or for purposes of trust within a company for officials/original organizers can know exactly who they are hiring. In this kind of a situation it would be beneficial to these administrations of top ranking companies to know extra information about their supervisors/managers in order to eliminate issues and hire the ones they deem fit for the position as well. However, if someone did not feel comfortable disclosing this much information due to fears of harassment or discrimination then this could be a problem~