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• Categories of Information Holders


  • Business
  • Government
  • Individual
  • Education
  • Healthcare
  • Charity & Community
• Business


  • Holds information on employees, including date of birth, address and financial information
  • Holds commercial information such as profits and losses, product descriptions and historical data
  • May record information about competitors and general marketing data
• Government


  • Holds information about citizens including financial earnings, tax paid, births and deaths
  • Holds the electoral roll with information about addresses
  • Stores information about other countries and shares some of this publicly
• Individual


  • Holds information about themselves, including name, date of birth, address, usernames and passwords
  • Stores information of others, such as phone numbers, social media details and email addresses
  • Stores information about organisations, such as the address of their favourite restaurant, opening hours of the local cinema or the telephone number from a catchy advert
• Education


  • Holds information about current and past students, including addresses, attendance records and examination history
  • Holds contact information for parents and guardians
  • Stores information about teachers as well as students that previously attended the institution
• Healthcare


  • Holds entire medical histories for each civilian, including personal information, previous illnesses and operations, blood type, allergies and prescriptions
  • The data stored is usually confidential and should not be shared by anyone other than the citizen in question
• Charity & Community


  • Holds financial information of donors
  • Holds information about the different projects that the donations are funding
  • May hold information about physical shops or locations, as well as members and events
• Digital divide


  The gap between people who do and do not have easy access to computers and networks
• Developed countries


  Have a more developed technology and industry base with more funding available for information infrastructures such as cabling and high-speed access
• Developing countries


  Have unstable governments and slower access (if any) to the internet, less money is spent on technology and improving broadband speed, and expensive equipment like computers cannot be purchased on low wages
• Urban locations


  Have a high population density, so councils and IT companies will spend a lot of money on internet infrastructure such as cabling and installing high-speed lines
• Rural locations


  Have a sparse population and settlements may be far apart, so internet access is poorer and broadband speeds are slower, making accessing information on the internet more difficult
• Remote locations


  Have limited internet access, with fast fixed broadband being expensive to install and many providers not investing in rural areas as it is not economically viable, leading to slow or interrupted download speeds and the need for alternatives like mobile or satellite broadband