Meena runs a small business and she retains information on most of her clients such as personal emails, telephone numbers, and credit card information. To ensure that this information remains secure, she should ________.
A)upload the data to a cloud server to ensure that it never gets lost
B)upload the data to a SaaS to ensure that it never gets lost
C)keep it on a local server that only she has access to and that she backs up frequently
D)keep hard copies only of the data and never keep it in digital form
E)not collect this information in the first place since it is unethical to do so

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C) Meena should not assume that cloud servers will not mine or share her information. The only way to practically protect the data she has collected is to keep it locally. Hard copies are impractical and can too easily be lost or destroyed, and as long as her customers agree to her having their personal information, there is nothing unethical about keeping it.

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