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Ethics Reflective Journal 2
In the previous weeks, I have learnt about ethics in Information technology, which is a
broad topic covering various attributes which include privacy rights, various ways in which
privacy of individual persons and privacy of personal data is breached by various actors, the
various technologies that have emerged and the role that they play in either protecting or
violating personal data privacy rights. In most cases, these technologies are causing more harm
than good to personal data (Bygrave 2014).
I also learned about the various legislations that have been enacted by the Australian
government to protect personal privacy, which according to Australian Government (2018)
include; privacy and personal information protection act of 1998, surveillance devices act of
2007, health records information protection act of 2002 which states that in case of unauthorized
access to personal data, every individual whose data has been exposed should be notified within
sixty days, freedom of information act of 1998, and workplace surveillance act of 2005 which
has little restrictions on how the employers monitor their employees.
RELEVANT CONCEPTS AND THEORIES:
The most important concepts of the topic are the key privacy and anonymity issues which
are;
Data breaches: this refers to the unauthorized access to data, it may be as a result of
eavesdropping which is date leakage as a result of unsecure channel, or hacking which is
penetration into a database (Takabi, Joshi, and Ahn 2010). When a data breach occurs it exposes
private and confidential data such as bank details, business secrets, among others.
Electronic discovery: it is a technology which is used to access/ retrieve information
which is stored electronically in response to a request for production in a lawsuit (Chen and Zhao