Blog: Privacy


There are several issues regarding privacy and confidentiality related to new media. For example, when you log in to applications such as Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, etc., you agree to have all your information available to them. All the private messages you send your friends, the pictures, photos, and more, are all available to the owners of the application and can also be obtained to the public via hack. Snapchat has done something new with their application in the past week. Through snapchat, you can check the exact location of all your friends. That is a little weird and scary because I can just log onto the account and see exactly where everybody is. The world is transforming at a rapid pace and nothing we do online is private. Now, going back to the previous matter. Nothing you do is confidential, as previously stated and can be accessed by the company. Sometimes we see private pictures and messages of famous celebrities posted online. They didn’t post those private photos or messages. It was obtained by a hacker who wanted to humiliate them and posted them online. These photos and messages can be dated back years. As you see, nothing we do online is secure and safe as much as you may think so. Now, imagine your laptop being hacked. You are now at risk of having your personal information such as credit cards and social security available to random people. This happens all the time. My dad was sitting on his couch and got a phone call from chase bank that his credit card was charged a few hundred dollars in another country. They disputed it right away, but it shows that you are never safe from fraud and confidentiality issues.  

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