What is privacy?
According to Michale McFarland, MJ from Santa Clara University, privacy is something that each person has a sphere of existence and activity that properly belongs to that individual alone, where he or she should be free of constraint, coercion, and even uninvited observation. To date, it known as people needs their own 'space'. It is the matter of human right.
Are we sacrificing privacy on Internet? (Social Media)
According to Pew Research Internet Project, teens today increasingly posted or shared certain type of information on social media than the older teens did in the past.
Cases that your privacy are being threatened on social media are everywhere in the world. Let me tell you why social medias are not safe that how you thought!
I've do some research regarding privacy issues on social media. We know Snapchat is a phone application and it's famous with its function; snap photos and text with your friends. Snapchat's whole point is that your friends will have a certain amount of time to view each image sent.
Sounds interesting? You think that it's safe if you send a very personal/private message to your friends since it will gone forever without keeping any history?
Nothing is impossible in the world.
I know teenagers nowadays are obsessing with taking picture. Taking photos/ selfie/ wefie/ groupfie are fun!
What if there are the hackers that theft your personal information by hacking your Snapchat's account?
It makes me think of Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos leaked on iCloud. If you wondered, read article here.
According to The Eagle, hackers leaked an archive containing over 200,000 images around 13GB on October in 2014. The images that hacked are all nude photos from users. This is crazy! Do you think that social media is still safe?
Or you wanted to tell me that photos leaked by hacking social media's account doesn't really a matter or it doesn't count as sacrificing privacy? Come on, what if that's your nude photos?!
Similar thing that happen and happen again in different social medias, privacy leaked on the internet also known as privacy violation. You can control how much do you want to reveal yourself but is that worth?
Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the non-profit Center for Digital Democracy, said that Facebook was sacrificing the safety and privacy of teenage users in order to further its business.According to Chester, Facebook is much more extensive than other social media that allow teens to share information, according to Chester.
"Teens don't necessarily have good judgment and to the extent that they make themselves visible to the wider public, there's all kind of people – from predators to junk food marketers – who are surveilling Facebook for new kinds of targets," Chester said.It's basically an idea that teens have the least ability to judge which is right and which is wrong, what can be revealed on the internet, what can not. At the same time, they thought sharing information and interact with people on social media is just too fun.
Besides photos leaked can be an privacy issue that need to be concerned, your basic detail, information, daily life status that you posted on Facebook also regarding to privacy.
From the video below, it shows a man, Davil Guillaume will know people's personal life information just by checking/ viewing their social media account.
References:
Jordan, S (2014) 'Don’t sacrifice your privacy for social media' [Online] Available at: http://csceagle.com/2014/10/22/dont-sacrifice-your-privacy-for-social-media/
Curtis, S (2013) 'Facebook allows teenagers to share status updates with the world' [Online] Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10386401/Facebook-allows-teenagers-to-share-status-updates-with-the-world.html
Further Reading:
http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/05/21/teens-social-media-and-privacy/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/29008876
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