Citizens Identities in Public Documents

Contained herein is an article critique regarding picture show of private reading through digitisation projects that allow unrestricted public access.The analysis will specifically deal with caper Harneys Protecting Citizens Identities in customary Documents that highlights how a County document preservation segment dealt with the issue of protecting public training in effect.In the understanding that exposing private data much(prenominal) as social security, bank written report numbers and title deed, the Maricoba County Recorder embarked on an elaborative process of scanning and removing all the exquisite information from documents without diluting usefulness.The Countys efforts are in-chief(postnominal) considering the dangers of exposing such data to other people. Indeed, the image would make it easy for phishers to collect information that is later used for identity theft. Harneys article is because an important eye-opener that it is mathematical for society to uti lize new technologies effectively without posing dangers to individuals private lives. Maricoba Countys processes should consequently be regarded as best practices in digitization field.This is especially because members of the public would be more supportive of such projects and therefore be more willing to extend donations and propositions. Such collaboration would help in the process of digitizing the millions, maybe billions, of documents and information whose digitization would improve public awareness on past and current issues affective various(prenominal) society.In addition, the end of publics phobia of digitization and privacy will indeed be help in motivating technology makers in improving shipway of improving security features further. John Harneys Protecting Citizens Identities in Public Documents is in this regard an important contribution to the see of digitization and information security.ReferencesHarney, J. (2008). Protecting Citizens Identities in Public D ocuments. Retrieved March 3, 2009, from http//www.infonomics-digital.com/infonomics/20080304/?pg=60