Blog: Privacy

The issues of confidentiality and privacy are related to new media in a major way. As the world is becoming extremely dependent on technology and new media overall, there is less and less privacy. We live in an era where everyone wants post online their personal lives and interests. Companies use this to their advantage and work with one another to gain information that will help them improve their connection with their consumers. Although this can be beneficial for companies, this is an invasion of privacy. Anyone can have access to your information, passwords, pictures, content if you aren’t careful with protecting your information. Especially when saving your banking information on websites where you shop, anyone can easily hack the website and gain access of this information. In an article titled “ Target works on security-heavy credit cards, after breach” they discuss the current security breach that Target had. A breach which lead to theft of names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, debit/credit cards.