With technology today records and other important documents are now kept on computers instead of the traditional pen and paper style of bookkeeping. People put a lot of faith into computers and trust that they will always provide the documentation that they store forever. Most of the time people do not see the need for a back up system to recover any data that may get lost or they may think that it is important but they put off using the backup and eventually forget about it.
Today, social security information, military records, birth records, death records and prison sign in and discharge records can be viewed from the comfort of your home computer.
This information that we all have access to is priceless. It takes less time for someone to type out these documents than it does to mail in a request, have someone write it up make a copy and then send it by mail to the person that requested the information.
This is okay as long as there is a backup plan to saving or recovering data. If there was a fire in a courthouse or file room that housed all the important information then we would only have our computers to gather the information and would have to...