Privacy

Privacy is a big issue in today's world and new media can be one of the reasons why. As technology continues to grow and companies continue to profit from gather information about people the privacy issue will always be an issue. Organizations want to understand people and their habits in order to market or sell things to them. Everyone on the internet are now trying to cash in on this because the internet is so large and there will always be data to be collected. The internet population isn't the problem, the new media is. I think that in today's new media, almost every organization or website will ask for credentials before you can access any of their content and we're basically giving our information to them every time we surf the web. The more we fill out these forms or acceptance of terms on the internet the more vulnerable and public our lives will be to the internet. An article about the University of Maryland spoke about the University being hacked and information of over 300,000 people's information being stolen. The information dates back to 1998. I understand that the University might have reasons to keep this information., but because they kept this information stored somewhere, bad people were able to access it. We live in a world where the more information that is collected the stronger organizations become. But in this case I can think of more reasons to maybe erase past data/information than to keep it. I think new media has changed people and organizations and slowly changed our society in to a bunch of information hoarders. Its become more of a obsession and using the information for whatever business plans they have in store is just an excuse.