In my previous example of social media, us humans gave up our privacy in the sense that everything we do, we post on our social media accounts, such as taking a vacation or having a fight with a significant other. We no longer confine our privacy to the area known as our household, and the situation where mostly your family or extremely close friends would only know certain things that you know post all over your Facebook accounts.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
New Media's Impact on Privacy
The invention of new media, for example, the internet and social media websites resulted in humans giving up more than just their money and time to access these things; us humans also gave up our privacy when we embraced new media. For the term paper, I plan to research how certain new media inventions led to this loss of privacy. I also plan to research how things such as RFID technology, databases that contain our information, and even things like laptops and computers helped us lose our privacy.
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Hi Rajat,
ReplyDeleteWhat a great project! I am sure it will be very educational and interesting. I really liked the fact that you mentioned how we contribute to the loss of privacy; by uploading stuff to our profile. You are completely right. On top of the website's access to the user's contacts, personal information, calendar and events we expose ourselves much more by posting private details about our lives.
I try to stay away from posting too many private events and information ons social media due to the fact that you never know who will see it. Even though you can set that only your friends will view your profile and information I am pretty skeptical. There is always a way around the precut restrictions, unfortunately.
Either way, sounds like a solid project.
Good luck!
Adva