Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Privacy & Confidentiality

I would say that privacy and confidentiality is one of the major problems in social networking, internet and new media.
Privacy on the web is very unsafe, and everything and anything that we ever posted on line is available and permanently it is stored in the system. Therefore, as soon as we open a new profile, post or edit a line, or even if somebody else does that-mentioning our name on some webpage or anything of the similar manner we are exposed to the border public. Therefore our privacy gets lost and our identification can be seen across the world. In some ways it has a good meaning, because in our Western culture where technology, new media and advancement of communications are allowing us to progress and through this-on a business aspect we can easily be reached, and we can't hide anymore.
As of confidentiality, I think it is the same as with the privacy. Nothing can be safe and confident on internet, we shouldnt trust anything. There are many resorces but many of them can be and are wrong and people still trust them and get in trouble. For exemple the scams that we get through e-mail to invest money into certain things that will dobule after only a month or so. And people tend to be naive and trust these information. Also there is a enormus amont of scams through craigslist, when ever I would post somethig I would get different offers, that are composed very nicely, and seem very reliable but deep down I tend to get that gutts feeling through which I realise that this is wrong.
When ever we would send any kind of information via internet we should be careful because it can easily be exposed to everybody.

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