Blog: Privacy

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Privacy and confidentiality has become a huge concern in new media. Since everything is online, it makes it easier for people to track personal information. Your search history on sites, credit information, and anything you do can be tracked. We have a digital finger print. Advertisers can use our information to their advantage. They can see what we like, post, and search for. This is why we tend to see images of things we would want to buy on Facebook or Instagram. In terms of Social Media, people do not realize that the personal information they post may have consequences. People who are regularly posting pictures, videos, and statuses do not think about what hackers, stalkers, or anyone could do with that data. Newer generations are definitely more likely to post personal information than others. It seems they are oblivious to these matters. Hackers can find ways to access personal information such as credit card information and other confidential matters. These issues can ruin someone’s life. Hackers lurk social media networks looking for people to scam. New media has made stalkers and hackers jobs easier! They can trick users into visiting sites, and the damage is done. This is how identity theft happens. Hackers can manage to take your personal information from your social media accounts and use that to get into your emails. There is most definitely a correlation between privacy/confidentiality and Social Media. New media gave hackers and companies an outlet to get what they want. 
  

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  1. EmilyNovember 22, 2017 at 9:45 AM

    I agree with you on all your points of how privacy is at risk with the expanding social media networks. Although new technology does make our lives easier such as not needing to enter our information multiple times when we can just enter it once and save it in our computers it does put us at risk if other people were to access out computers. Hopefully we can find out a good way to combat those issues soon rather than later when our information been plastered everywhere without even us knowing.

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