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1. What are the advantages of personal information management software over paper notebook organizers? What are the disadvantages?

Management software allows you to keep your information more organized. Also it takes up a lot less space.
A disadvantage is that a power outage, virus, etc. might cause you to lose your information.

2. Do we have a legal right to privacy? On what grounds?

Technically we do not have a right to privacy for everything we do on the internet. Information cannot be collected for those who are 12 and under. Also privacy of financial, eduction, and health records is a right. However, many other things do not require a company/business to hold back information.

3. Describe how record matching is used to obtain information about you. Give an example.

Record matching is used to obtain information about someone by entering one piece of information about that person, and have the software cross reference all the files they have for that piece of information. Then it pulls up all information that have something to do with it.

For example, someone enters my name, then the computer pulls up all the information that is attributed to the name.

4. What is the difference between a file mangaer and a DBMS?

A DBMS manipulates a large collection of files, often cross-referencing them. A file manager simply works with one file at a time.

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