Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Privacy & Confidentiality


When users decide to use the free services provided by the New Media, such as Facebook, Instagram, etc., it is also a process which users agree to sell their privacy for the free service. Generally, users are not familiar with online privacy policy. New Media, social networking sites, often ask for users for personal information/data, which is called privacy. When they say they keep all users’ data confidential, it might not always be true. One thing for sure is that they will use users’ data for their future development to see what users’ need/want. For example, google’s mail, gmail, had been reported that, when browsing their email, ads will show on right side; they show ads with thing you often searched for. Many users reported that they felt their privacy's been exposed because of that. After all, when users use real information online, they should know it will never be confidential, and has no privacy projection at all.

1 comment:

  1. Pointed out a great point. The TOS of a social media program is really something that needs to be looked into before people go on these rants of not having privacy.

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