Privacy & Confidentiality

Even though new media makes our lives more convenient, it also creates privacy and confidentiality issues at the same time. We are allowed to change privacy settings that social sites provide. However, we still have possibility to open our personal information to everyone unintentionally on the Internet. It is because some people do not know how to set up their privacy setting properly and all our information is still on servers with privacy settings. The companies always have possibility to leak our personal information or some hackers can still break the security. In fact, Sony entertainment leaked its customer information of Play Station Network this year including credit card information and names. In order to keep our privacy, each of us has to be aware of privacy risks of new media and the providers must ensure confidentiality.