Privacy

Privacy is a very tricky subject, because who determines what things should be hidden or not. For example, if someone was doing something suspicious in their own home do they deserve privacy? Privacy and confidentiality are related to new media because many sources of new media gather information about you. For example, on Facebook they gather data about you to try and find ads you will click on, providing them with more revenue. With new media, we must ask ourselves what do we give up in terms of privacy while using these free site as Facebook. Besides ads, privacy and confidentiality can also be tricky or confusing with new media. For example, with Facebook there are many settings and terms that you have to know how to operate to provide greater privacy. For example, on Facebook you can allow only friends to see your post or allow only friends of friends to send you a friend request. There are many issues with privacy relating to new media, and the best way to combat these issues is to educate yourself on the ways sites allow you to protect your privacy the most you can.