Privacy & Confidentiality

    As new media expands, so does the vulnerability of new media users' privacy and confidentiality. There have been many situations in the past where individuals using some form of new media had their privacy breached. For example, there was a massive Snapchat scandal where hackers obtained pictures of users by hacking another application that allows individuals to store Snapchats that they took screen-shots of. We live in a society where virtually every aspect of our lives is documented in one way or another. Private information is a tremendous aspect that new media corporations are constantly trying to both obtain and protect. There is an exchange of private information virtually every time an individual uses a form of new media. For example, many social media sites require you to use an email address in order to sign up; Uber requires you to turn on your location every time you use its services; Google and every other email application stores your emails. With the exchange of private information comes the risk of having that information accessed by others or leaked online. There is an inherent risk every time an individual uses any form of new media. Unfortunately, it is virtually impossible to completely negate such risk. Therefore, new media corporations constantly have to update their security in order to keep their users' private information confidential.