Privacy and Confidentiality

One of big issue in today’s society is privacy and confidentiality due to new media. Privacy deals with personal information and confidentiality deals with company’s information.

Nowadays people can steal information more easily because of Internet. Social networking sites become so popular in today’s society, they already adopted in many different fields. They improve people’s communication; make closer relationship between companies and customers; send out message easily and wisely. However, at the same time people need to face lost of privacy by using those social networking sites. It is easy for people to view what you post on your sites without your notice or permission. There are some employers looked at their employees social networking sites to see if they have proper behavior in their daily lives. And there are some cases that employees get fire or a person not get hire by the company because the photos that they upload or the word they post on those sites. Social networking sites also give opportunity for companies to collect people’s information without their permission. People can also steal other people’s information on social networking sites for illegal purpose.

We are living in a technology world which almost everybody is using computers. Many companies rely on the computer so heavy. They need to do the business or operation base on the computers. They will save all of information on their computers. These companies participate on social networking site to give out more information to the public and they also create company’s website online which customers can view company’s information online and make the purchase online. When you make the online purchase, you need to enter your personal information such as name, address, phone number and credit card number. The information that people enter will give hacker to steal these information. Also, because most companies will save all of information in computer, hacker can hack in the company’s computers and steal all of information. There are some people working as telecommuting which is people do their jobs at home through computer, it also give chance to hacker to hacker in the computer through Internet and steal your job information.

There are many new media are relying on the Internet, and it brings great amount of benefit to the society. However, there are also great amount of chance for people to loss privacy, for companies to loss confidentiality.