Privacy & Confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality are heavily related to new media, I believe new media always has a liability relating to privacy and confidentiality. Social media tends to be the place where privacy and confidentiality disappear. While social networking sites do allow people to make their accounts private so only people you have accepted can see your profile. Most people don't know about this, especially new users and with this anyone; anywhere can see their information. This can become a problem, as in todays world job opportunities may slip due to what you have said and posted on your social networking sites. New media has somehow become the definition of who are based on what you post and with the liability of privacy and confidentiality this can be used against you. While some people do know of these features there is still a possibility of being hacked of your account, meaning someone has breached your account and you lose capability of using it. The hacker then has access to your information and other data that you may have not wanted to share. The perfect example is the breach that happened with target. In the article titled "Target works on security-heavy credit cards, after breach" written by Dara Kerr talks about the issue of privacy and confidentially relating to new media. Like the rest of the world new media has made is mark in numerous areas and big retailers is one of them. However, as stated in the article target 110 million customers had their credit cards and personal data stolen through targets database. New media technology allows for our information to be stored within databases but these databases are not 100% secure as seen with target. While new media has advanced it still holds some spots of liability relating to privacy and confidentiality.