Friday, April 23, 2010

privacy and confidentiality

When we speak about new media, privacy and confidentiality are the main concerns. I personally think there is no such a thing as personal privacy when you deal with Internet and new media. Just think of all the social networking sites where people put tons of personal information which is open to public and can easily be used by so called "friends" whom you might have never seen in your life. Think of numerous websites which require you to register by providing at least a valid e-mail address in order to read the content. Then these e-mail addresses are being sold and bought by marketers. And we get spam, junk mail and all sorts of things we do not want. Our actions are being observed, collected, and analyzed for different purposes. Another big issue is identity theft, hacking, stealing of confidential data like medical records which can cause serious problems.
There are no clear federal statues on privacy issues and things can go really out of control. So, it is our responsibility to protect ourselves. We should act wisely and think twice before putting and sharing personal information online whether it is a SN site, blog, or Twitter.

4 comments:

  1. The worse thing is that other people can put up your information, pictures, and more. Privacy is something very hard to keep in this modern age filled with New Media sites and applications.

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  2. I completely agree with you in that there is no such thing as privacy when it comes to new media. Everybody should be aware of the information they put online

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  3. agree. people should also stop tagging people's pics on fb as well because these pics show up on one's own profile. there should be a privacy setting for that as well (there might be, never looked into it).

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  4. Yes, i agreee with you. When you are online, YOU MUST CAREFUL WHAT YOU POST WRITE AND SO ON. i would say try to stay far as you can from posting personal info on SN sites.

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