Monday, April 7, 2014
Privacy
& Confidentiality
Privacy
and Confidentiality are the major problem in today’s media. These all problems
are usually due to connection with social media sites like Facebook, Twitter,
MySpace, Google plus etc. These social media creates more problems than any
other new media. People usually put unnecessary and confidential items too on
social media like their contact number, address, information about their
workplace, family list, date of birth and all. Actually it is not fair to blame
this type of new media. They put privacy policies and privacy setting. But
problem lies within user.
Users
are not aware of these facilities and all. So they do not set proper privacy
setting and make content open for world. There is setting to make content
visible to their friends only, or can share content with friends of friends.
User can also block unwanted users so they cannot see users content. New media
provides these all facilities. If users are aware with all privacy policies and
privacy settings there will be fewer problems. To avoid upcoming problems from
this new age of media some countries made laws for restriction of content
sharing. Hole in privacy and confidentiality led user to be in problem or can
be victim either physical or mental attack. It is hard to maintain
confidentiality and privacy in era of Internet but not impossible. This new media needs to be more concerned
about user’s privacy and confidentiality. They are supposed to give user more
demonstration of privacy features. And users are also supposed to be aware with
attacks followed by privacy and confidentiality loopholes. If new media and
Users both will work on these issues, new media will enter in new era.
Bertot, J. C., Jaeger, P. T., &
Hansen, D. (2012). The impact of polices on government social media usage:
Issues, challenges, and recommendations. Government Information Quarterly,
29(1), 30-40.
