Privacy & Confidentiality

With the increasing use of new media, privacy and confidentiality's importance are also increasing. This is because now that more and more people are using new media, more and more of our personal information are also being inputted in these new media. For example, when signing up for facebook or twitter, you would have to put in a lot of personal information that you may not want others to know like your phone number or email. This can still be considered minor but what if you wanted to be a YouTuber and put in information relating to your bank account. Another example relating to your banking information would be when you sign up for netflix. These information are very sensitive and it is important to keep them private and confidential. Lots of hackers know that you have a lot of personal information in new media which is why in recent cases there has been more news about people hacking other peoples social media accounts and stealing information. With so many cases like these happening it is very important that companies initiate preventive measures against personal information leaks.