Academic Integrity in a Digital Age

When it comes to personal information privacy, sets of all data that are associated with individual are concerned. This may include names, date of birth, gender, school, graduation, geographical location and so on. Thus personal information is termed as a technical or objective sense.

Personal information can either be sensitive or identifiable. When we talk of personal information are sensitive, we refers to information that some people believes that they should be kept private while identifiable information refers to any type of information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact or locate the person to whom such information relates. Identifiable information can be including but not limited to name, address, phone number, social security number and credit card information.

With the advent of computers and the advanced technology, numerous companies and institutions store a lot of information in databases containing personal data.In many institutions, this technology can be used to understand and perform ways that improve student achievement, community engagement, and institution accountability. Despite these benefits, Technology can present several drawbacks, and one of drawback being the challenge of data and information privacy. This concern can raise fears, especially in areas of infringement to student records. We might have seen the increasing data infringement incidents which illustrate that colleges and universities are highly susceptible to compromising information. Thus, these institutions need to implement measures to counter privacy threats, either by implementing security policy, updating systems as technology changes or offering computer security training to their personnel among others.