Privacy and Confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality are both extremely important in regard to new media, and become even more important as time passes. Since we are in an information era, anything we do or say online is stored in what is called a digital fingerprint, available for our future employers, friends, and others to find withe the click of a button. In order to keep our information and personal life safe, one must be very careful about what information they choose to put on the web.


Another very important issue is the issue of identity theft. Since the use of devices like smartphones and tablets, we are storing information like credit card numbers, ban accounts, and social security numbers in these online devices. If these devices are lost or stole, they pose a threat to being stolen and hacked. Also if a user connects to an open network, one can easily swoop in and steal their personal information. 


With the ever growing use of these devices and websites, we need to be careful to always have strong privacy settings if we want to stay safe in the future, since it is almost impossible to get rid of what we post on the web once it is already posted.