Chapter B, Problem B7.11MBD

Explanation of Solution

Information issues at Buffalo police department:

• The people who were in charge for erasing and scrubbing hard drives would be held responsible for the issue.
• It is a serious information leak issue due to negligence.
• The information should have been deleted properly before being sold.

Ethical and information security issues:

• The ethical issues includes:
  • Maintaining privacy:
    • It denotes right to privacy of personal information of people.
    • The personal information of people should not be used without their consent.
  • Maintaining confidentiality:
    • The information regarding offenders should be kept confidential.
    • It applies to all types of data including photographs as well as other details.
• The information security issues:
  • Identity theft:
    • The identity leaked can be used for criminal activities.
    • It can be utilized to make online purchase pretending to be someone else.
  • Social media attacks:
    • The attack is performed with the basic initial data obtained.
    • More details like images, status and videos are been obtained.

Implementation of epolicies:

• Epolicies denote procedures as well as policies that address management of information along with ethical use of computers.
• The epolicies includes:
  • Ethical computer use policy:
    • It contains principles to guide user behavior of computer based machines...