Paper Details

Over thepast few years, the concern of data privacy and its security has been a major issue for most of thecountries across the globe.The data breaches have had large implications to the society and one can clearly imagine theoutcomes that it would have on the data integrity of the nation. Despite having strong data security mechanisms, therehas always been incident of data breaches. The concern of data privacy is not a recent trend. There was a time whendata was recorded and stored manually which lead to data duplication and often data losses. Such losses are also a formof data privacy breach. With everything going digital, large volumes of data can be stored in one go in multipledatabases. When data is stored digitally, the risk of data duplication and redundancy can also be overcome. Storing dataonline has got several advantages over the manual methods of storing data.The data that is stored online can beaccessed and replicated anytime and anywhere upon the ease of the users. Despite having several advantages, the onlinedata is prone to severe disadvantages and threats as well. This paper discusses the advantages, disadvantages of storingdata online. It also discusses the mechanisms that are required to store and secure the online data. The author alsoexplains the various reasons breaching of data that is digitally stored.

Rishabh Sinha, “Data Privacy: Securing the Big Data”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 303-308, January 2018.