Privacy And Confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality are both very important whether it has to do with new media or some other aspect. A lot of times we are unaware of the fact that we are putting up a lot of our personal stuff online. For example, many times on social networking sites such as Facebook, we put our personal information, but don't put the proper security or privacy settings on our pages. Same goes for other social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter. With the use of Youtube, you have copyrights which prevents people from using other peoples work to claim it as their own. All these measures are taken simply because the internet is so enormous now, you never know where your work or personal information is going. Furthermore, any work that you do put online, such as even a small piece of work such as a poem, maybe used by someone else without using your reference. That poem is your own individual intellectual property and you might not want someone else to share it. Therefore, privacy and security is a major issue when using new media and the internet in general.