While privacy concerns are easily appreciated, other less apparent areas are affected as well. The Commonwealth does not currently have any statutes clearly protecting the privacy of individually identifiable information. Kentucky specific privacy concerns. The use of relatively new techniques such as encryption and digital signatures must be evaluated. In some cases, legislation may be required to enable the use of these security technologies.
Security is critical to the support of electronic commerce initiatives.
Business partners must be convinced that their electronic transactions will be secure. Understanding the education and training requirements of advanced information technology applications is a challenge in itself. Increased video conferencing and distance learning applications through two-way interactive video will substantiate the awareness building and training need to frequently operate and use this technology. In support of the expanding computing and communications infrastructure, government will need to provide resources for both basic and applied IT training, as well as providing financial assistance for IT education and training. Libraries are the most obvious areas where this is a concern, but other application areas such as education and government services also are involved.