Privacy & Confidentiality

     In this ever evolving world, the quickening of the speed at which information moves is extraordinary. These days something happening half way around the world, in China, will make it to our news feeds in a matter of minutes. With information moving so fast, it is hard to perceive the implications that new media has on privacy and confidentiality. Privacy, virtually, goes out the window, the privacy policies are written so that the respective site can do what they want with whatever information you provide them. Our culture is all about sharing, for instance, we witness a fight on the street, all you see are other witnesses recording it and eventually posting it online. So the idea that confidentiality is highly regarded would be hard to prove. I believe that the idea behind new Media is more "open-sourced" or "collaboration" making confidentiality hard to maintain.