Privacy & Confidentiality

Privacy & Confidentiality are a huge part of New Media today. In the beginning of new media venturing out to society, many people were extremely hesitant in using because of privacy and confidentiality. It is quite obvious that when someones information is searched on google, many times there social media page pops up if all credentials match. Such as email, instagram @ name, phone number, etc. The coolest thing for many when it comes to social media is the opportunity to search for someone you know and instantly be connected. From childhood friends to family members, this has been a huge positive with new media. However, the scary part of  this is how easy it is to find someone. One can retrieve an individuals work place, address, age and so forth all through looking at his/her page. Things like this have led to major cases of harassment. With that being said, there is not one social media account or new media account that does not have a privacy setting in which allows you to adjust what you would like for one to see or not see.
The concern that lies with this is this really a privacy setting and how many people are able to suppress that. Which is many with hacking and what not. These are all concerns many have with how updated new media is and how easy it has made it to be found on the internet.
With today's new media, everything is accessible online and created online. People put in SSC #'s, credit/debit card numbers and other very personal things online. This is the norm. The fear with privacy and confidentiality is who is seeing this and how many people are able to hack and get our information. So many companies, MAJOR companies, have been affected by this. Target being one of them where every single customer from a certain period of time were violated with hackers who got a hold of every card information. These are things that occur and will continue to occur as technology improves. I am sure in time technology will create greater barriers, however, in the time being, ensuring you are using secured websites and being careful with what exactly is put up is what new media users have to do.