Blog: Privacy

When it comes to privacy and confidentiality with new media we feel it is an important aspect of it as we should. When we think about privacy and confidentiality with Facebook or Twitter we trust Facebook to be able to keep our personal information as well as our private posts well private because we only want people we know seeing things like that since you never know who could show up at your doorstep if the information wasn't private. As well as security reasons the information is confidential and cannot be accessed unless a court order has been issued to allow for the new media company to release that information to the proper authorities, but for any other reason the company can refuse because it goes against their promise to keep our information private. The issue with apple when they don't unlock cell phones or allow The Fed's access to their servers because apple always ensures that their goal to make sure your information is secure which it always is. When it comes to certain scenarios like when Facebook allows access to loved ones of the deceased family members account that is understandable, but when it comes to authorities asking for the ability to spy on individuals who the authorities deem a threat when the might not be that has crossed a line and Facebook can see that and know that something like that breaks the whole aspect of providing individuals with privacy and actually protecting their privacy. When it comes down to it when a doctor has doctor patient confidentiality or a layer has client confidentiality it is their for the purpose of protecting the clients image as well as their wellbeing because private information regardless of how big or small can affect someones life. The same goes for privacy in new media information that is private should stay that way or it would be private to  begin with. The thing with new media the private information can spread quicker and can affect you in even more ways since the internet is forever just like the information on it. In the end new media companies try their hardest to keep their users information private but not all the time is that possible just like with Equifax how all that personal information was hacked into and the company was trying to assure customers that it was being handled.