Privacy & Confidentiality

In this post, discuss how the issues of privacy and confidentiality are related to new media.

There are definitely issues of privacy related to new media. Every time you search online for the best restaurant deal, share news with Facebook friends, or tweet to your followers, your audience is bigger than you may know.

Vast amounts of information are being collected by private companies  - including google, microsoft, facebook and twitter. Using location services on your phone, when posts are created on facebook and instagram alike, tons of people at that point have access to where you were. Many websites and applications are storing user information. Suddenly before you know it, they know you better than you know yourself.