Blog: Privacy

The more we use new media the more we jeopardize our privacy without even realizing it. Today many new media such as Facebook, Snapchat and even Instagram are able to access your personal information without you even noticing. For example these apps ask for your location and can track wherever you go and where you are. This is scary and it does violate a person's privacy. Another thing which we all have been a prey of is the marketing industry which has jeopardized privacy on a whole new level and it is still debated whether they are ethical and moral or not. Companies use cookies to track exactly what you click on, what websites you visit and how often you visit them and much more information so that they could so call "better" advertise to consumers, but this in my opinion is not ethical as it is a violation of my privacy. So you have to be careful when using new media because the more we use it the more information we feed to these companies about ourselves which can be a problem and it has became a major issue. The more technologically advanced we will get the more vulnerable we will be to privacy attacks so as a user it is very important for us to be careful and limit the apps we use to have access to certain information of yours.