Worse still, there are many ways data can be put at risk -- software vulnerabilities, lost hard drives and CDs, malicious insiders, poor security.
They can only lead to infamous data breaches. Over the last two years, 22 such most notorious cases were reported in Britain.
Even the United States, the single superpower in today's world, cannot be immuned from these problems in protecting individual information when people are using big data to analyze how to offer better services to target consumers.
For instance, 198 million Americans' personal information was accidentally released, according to reports from the United States in June.
Undoubtedly, larger and more serious breaches lie ahead.
The new British Data Protection Bill is not expected to remove root causes of data leakage.
Many experts have already warned that businesses are totally uNPRepared for the new rules coming into force in Britain. Given the high fines for offenses, companies may be stung before getting their houses in order.
Furthermore, some argued that the extent of the reforms are unclear -- important personal data such as health records or data of scientific importance may be protected, but at this stage, it is unclear exactly what the exemption may be.
When a lot of questions are raised about web security, it is a desired development to use law as a weapon to keep personal information from being leaked.
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