- Describe four ethical issues that arise when storing electronic information about individuals.
One ethical issue that arises is the privacy and confidentiality issue. Overall this is allowing a business to keep information about an individual, but at times the information is shared. This is a privacy issue because a company is able to have information about an individual and the data is saved on a technological device which has a risk of being confiscated. Another ethical issue that arises is security breaches. This threatens patient privacy when confidential health information is made available to other without the individual’s consent. Another ethical issue that arises is system implementation. This is an ethical issue because in companies the implementation caused loss of confidence by patients and patient safety issues due to the fact that the implementation was not kept up with or that the workers did not know how to correctly use it. The last ethical issue is data inaccuracies because if the data is loss during a data transfer then this raises concerns of whether or not the data about the patient is accurate.
- Compare cybersecurity risks in the US and another country.
Geographically there is a big difference in the amount of cybercrimes in the United States compared to the rest of the world. The United states has the biggest cybercrime rate, with China coming in second. The United States is significantly higher than all other countries. This means that the Unites States needs to figure out how to stop cybercrime whether it is more security or a better way to keep information enclosed. This year specifically Japan has had a rise in cyber crimes which may be because of the Olympics and Paralympics that are happening in 2020. In Japan there has been an increase in the frequency and sophistication of the cyber-attacks that are occurring. Overall the cyber security in Japan is not doing well and can be compared to the United States. Both the United States and Japan are experiences around the same amount of occurrences with cyber-attacks which is becoming a big concern.