Privacy and Personal Information

Personal information which regards to medical health of patients is a very crucial file that must not be distributed publicly, these acts of distribution of confidential file containing the names of about 400 AIDS patient sent from a country health department is an absurd act of this disgruntled employee.

One of the reason that technology was made is to lessen the use of paper, using of paper files can be hazardous to our environment, imagine how much trees will be cut to make our notebooks, newspapers and other paper documents, and paper documents can also be unsafe for those lawbreakers who violate the laws of privacy. Paper files can be easily lost, burned, or even stolen by those "disgruntled people" because they are only kept in file cabinets or folders that can be easily be found.

I agree in using electronic files rather than paper files because electronic files can be stored to a database and also can be retrieve rapidly, and a quality of technology that must not be disregarded, Security. Electronic files also has a great security for those hackers whose target is to get files and scatter them or keeping it for themselves. Hacking electronic files is a crucial thing to do which requires usernames and password and even IP addresses (Online) that only the administrator or the Chief Security Officer of the organization knows. For example in a MMORPG game if you get caught hacking other players accounts you will be banned and that’s only in a game, what about if you hacked a crucial document for example the confidential files with 400 AIDS patients, I think its worse than getting banned maybe sentence on jail or paying hundreds of thousands of dollars or pesos.

In this active modern technology spreading and continually improving, using of paper files must be minimized in keeping confidential file rather use electronic files to be easily stored, retrieve and secured.