Privacy and Confidentiality

Privacy and Confidentiality are heavily related to new media since so much information is posted on sites such as Facebook, twitter etc. In my term paper for this class I discuss the affects new media has on adolescents and one large section discusses the very issue of privacy online. Teens tend to put too much personal information on their pages and this information can be seen by users who may steal identities or stalk people. Confidentiality is a broad term but it is one that can be broken by many illegal acts happening on the internet everyday such as hackers, piracy, identity thefts. It can be broken by chain e-mails when only one person was meant to receive it. Privacy and Confidentiality are definitely one of the negative effects of the internet.