Privacy and Confidentiality is a big issue with new media, as I have written a 10 page paper on. With the advancing of technology, we allow a LOT of information to be stored. Whether in Facebook or any accounts that require our information such as credit cards, we expect that our privacy be kept confidential. We we sort our credit card information in Amazon, we expect it not to be seen by any third parties. But periodically, hackers seem to get through the system and have control of this type of confidential information. This is how privacy and confidentiality is related to new media. We allow the risk when using social media as well. As much as we do not want our pictures to be seen by non-friends, it sometimes can be. Celebrities even have issues with leaked photos. We live in a society where hacking is unethical, but inevitable.
This post brings up great points. Technology has been such a vital part of our everyday lives and little do we know or understand how much of our privacy is in jeopardy. As natural humans, we feel that we are entitled to our confidentiality which is why ethics plays a big role in corporations and companies who we trust our information with. Sometimes, there are those unethical people who hack into systems and get our personal information or data. When things like this happen, we are vulnerable and cannot control it depending on the situation. In most cases, our best way to handle this is to make sure we protect ourselves as well as our information and understand who we trust with it.
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