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Obsolete Reasons for Introduction
The continued growth in the use of electronic commerce as well as data warehousing poses novel and complex legal and security problems. The collection of customer data and use of information through the Internet raises the importance of the issue of privacy. As a communication medium, the Internet has the increased potential for causing damage (eg defamation) with its wide readership. An organisation is legally obliged to take reasonable steps to protect personal information stored in their databases from misuse and loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.It is important for every IT graduate to have an understanding of the legal ramifications of current IT practices and the steps that an organisation should consider taking to reduce both the legal and commercial risks associated with a breach of security. They would require an understanding of the security measures to be integrated into network architecture, protocols and implementations to offer reasonable assurance as to privacy and user identity.
