Privacy

In todays day and age, the concept of privacy and security are brought up every single day. We are making tremendous technological advances, but at the same time, comes some unintended consequences. Companies are making it a top priority to fight off cybercrime, and to keep their data and information private and secure, away from hackers. Whats more important, is our own personal information. Is our information private and confidential? Are we doing enough to protect our information? It all depends on the measures we take. New media technologies we use today such as facebook, instagram, and twitter, need to be protected. We need to go further lengths to ensure our information is indeed private. Information such as our passwords, birthdate, address, are just a few we should be keeping to ourselves. The more knowledge one has about you, the easier to crack the code into our private self. As new technology emerges, hackers are adapting their ways into phishing people to click malicious links, and from there the damage begins. The issues of privacy and security are written all over new media, we all need to come up with a solution that keeps us protected from unknown threats. Social media platforms allow us to control our privacy settings, but fail to make it user friendly enough for us to utilize. Instead, people just brush it off as something to do later, but once they become the victim, it is too late. Privacy and confidentiality should be something we are all committing ourselves too, making sure we take every route to keep our information out of the public realm.