Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Privacy
Today we are so connected to our technology the use of new media that some consider "privacy" to be a thing of the past. We willingly put our information, pictures and other types of data about ourselves online which can be accessible by a lot of people, more than the person might even be aware of. People usually gloss over or completely skip the terms of service so most of the time they aren't even aware of how their data is being seen or used. Though different types of New Media do offer various privacy options, these are usually too confusing to figure out or the options aren't extensive enough to have the type of privacy you want. A perfect example of this was when Mark Zuckerberg's own sister accidentally posted a photo of her family Facebook. She thought that the privacy setting she was choosing for the post would suffice but it wasn't really clear who would have access to it, little did she know that a friend of her sister could see it because her sister was tagged in the photo. (Greenfield, 2012) So even when we think we are implementing the privacy settings to do one thing, we are unaware of what it actually covers. When putting our information in a public space such as any New Media platform, we have to be aware that we are essentially giving up some of our privacy in the process. It is possible to have privacy on New Media, but it is impossible to have complete privacy.
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I agree about your ideas about privacy. It's true though, it's like everyone just want to post whatever they want without thinking about the consequences. These consequences that I'm referring to is either getting your accounts hacked or stolen, kidnapping or abduction and cyberbullying. For an example, an online users may post sensitive information about themselves on any social media site and they're running the risk of an unethical online user to hack your information. Likewise, in the case of a abduction or kidnapping, many online users are not aware that if you have your GPS location on and if your post it online, a particular hateful individual can track down your location and find you. Hopefully, this doesn't happen to you. Also, the cyber-bullying aspects lingers out there online. People will try to attempt to ruin your reputation because they may not like who you are. Nevertheless, I believe the main culprits of privacy issues are these social media sites allowing to sell your information to third party marketing companies without consent for advertising purposes. This is a huge issue because if an unauthorized user hacks into any of these social media sites database they're able to compromise your personal information and use it your malicious purposes. Nowadays, many of these social media networks need to strengthen their cybersecurity infrastructure to prevent further intrusion attacks on their organization. Furthermore, we must reeducate online users about the what you should or not should post online.
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