With the advent of the Internet, data has become available worldwide at the click of a button-including sensitive personal data. What is the potential for misuse of this information, and can users be sure that sites visited for online shopping, banking, and social networking are storing it safely? This program examines the transmission, storage, and use of electronic information, with the Australian Web site Seek serving as a case study. Seek's security manager discusses commercial storage methods, privacy, maintaining back-ups, and the importance of keeping data safe from accidental or deliberate harm.

Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on January 16, 2012. Learn360 is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

The Use and Storage of Data (5:09) -- Collecting Data (2:58) -- Storing and Retrieving Data (6:13) -- Transmitting and Receiving Data (3:44) -- Displaying and Using Data (3:11) -- Credits: Data: Ethical Use and Storage (0:41).