Is our Personal Information Safe in the digital world?

By: Malak Al-Saqri

In the age of Internet and revolutions, it has become hard to keep your personal life safe and private. These days it's very easy to reach a person's contact, full name or where s/he lives, you can get to know a person and his/her entire family without meeting them in reality! it's hard to admit this ugly truth, but strangers can actually enter your own house without taking permission!

Not by doors or windows but through this small digital screen, they can share your own life with you! So, it is the perfect time to address this question, Is our personal information safe in this digital world?

What is the definition of private information?

First, let's get familiar with the origins of the word ‘Privacy’, it is derived from the Latin word ‘Privatus’ which means the state of being in retirement from the company or the knowledge and observation of others.

How does the Student Information System (SIS) facilitate the education process?

By: Omar Abdul-Hafiz

Education, like all other sectors, has been influenced greatly by the emergence and advancement of information technology. And this has not been the case through the past 10 or so years only. In fact, this influence goes way further back than that.

One such old example of this influence was in 1988 when Automate The Schools (ATS), a K-12 student information system, was implemented across all of New York City’s public schools. It has been in use ever since. The system was written using the Computer Corporation of America’s (CCA) Model 204 database management software, and it facilitated the administration of over 1 million students in NYC’s public schools.