After the computer was invented, people started to transform the data and information into the digital format. It transformed the way that people accessed data as well. With easy access and high availability of data, people started to get their hands on data that they were not supposed to have. That's where people start to talk about data security and data governance. It's still a hot topic, especially in the last decade. When the wrong people have access to the wrong data, it can come back to people, organizations, or even on countries with bigger consequences.
The famous WikiLeaks phenomenon is a good example of it. WikiLeaks got access to state secrets. Some of that data was in the digital format, such as emails and scanned files. Someone with authority over that data had passed on the data to WikiLeaks, or they stole that...
