Data corruption

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Data corruption is the undesired alteration in computer data that occurs during writing, reading, storage, transmission, or processing. Computer systems use a number of measures to provide end-to-end data integrity, or lack of errors.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Data corruption”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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