Idea of Digital Data

          In today’s world, people tend to run majority of their daily errands through the internet. It is easy, convenient, and it saves a lot of time. In one hour someone can make a deposit in his personal bank account, order a medical prescription, pay bills, apply for a loan, get some shopping, and more. All it takes for a customer to be able to do this is having an account with each of this company’s websites. Creating an account is usually a very simple process where the person provides some information and creates a user name and a password to be able to return to the website. This information provided by the customer is called: digital data or digital information, which is simply any kind of information in digital format. Digital data can be public or private, it can be kept by the government, banks, medical providers, and other institutions; as well as a freely available in the internet in websites like myspace.com, facebook, LinkedIn, etc. 
The use of digital data has increased over the years rapidly. Few years ago, the most significant piece of digital data, and sometimes the only one, a person used to have, was his credit report. It was available on the internet to financial institutions, which used it to determine if the individual was credit worthy or not. Today, we are part of a digital society, where digital data is created every day by people, sometimes without even realizing it. Now, our digital profile is not only a bunch of numbers in our credit report, it is a more logistical report, that contains personal information, professional history, previous events in our live, financial situation, etc. And like everything else, it can be used for legal purposes as well as some illegal ones. 
Work Citied:Storing Digital Data for Eternity, Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/07/03/storing-digital-data-eternity-345557.html

Last modified: 6-22-2015