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Privacy

Privacy

- In the digital era, the organizations that we deal with collect a lot of information about individual people and their actions. From credit card transactions to educational records, every one of us generates a really significant trail of data behind us, and we're rightfully concerned about the privacy of that information. As IT professionals, we have a few interests in how organizations collect and use personal information. First, we're obviously concerned about our own private information. I want to understand who has information about me and what they're doing with it. Second, we have a responsibility to educate the users in our organizations about how they can protect their own personal information. And third, we have a responsibility to assist the privacy officials within our organization with the work that they need to do to protect the personal information that's entrusted to us. Private information may come in…

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