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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Privacy
Nowadays, new media become an inevitable part of our lives. When it comes to the use of new media, privacy is a concern. Many people are not aware of the amount and the extent of information they share, for example, on social media or other programs such as phone apps. The issue is that we share this information, giving up our privacy, willingly believing that they’re in safe hands. Well, we are not, now there is an emerging market that is designed for information trading, and it seemed to be profitable. In the same context, in his article "The wild West of Privacy", Nocera talked about how the big internet companies make profit putting our data in the service of advertisers, data selling business. Nocera also talked about huge data breaches which also become common nowadays, we may all hear about Target, Facebook, and Uber data breaches. We usually give these programs permission to access our location, access to device files; at this point, our privacy becomes vulnerable. Let say while I’m in Paris for vacation, I might be targeted by ads about restaurants and other businesses in that area; basically, we are being followed and stalked in a way or the other. Another issue is that we usually do not bother reading ‘’terms and conditions” while creating an account on social media or downloading an app, giving people in the other end, a huge amount of flexibility in terms of dealing with our information.
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Hi Imadeddine,
ReplyDeleteYour comments on Uber really reminded me of the problems the company faced when the safety of it's users were threatened. Fake Uber drivers would try to pick up passengers and vice versa, customers would harass legitimate drivers. Uber's solution was to collect more data like pictures and track where users are as a safety feature. What people need to focus on is that Uber does have a responsibility towards safety of it's drivers and users but it also has to protect that added collected data as well.
Hi Imadeddine,
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you when you mentioned how technology users tend to skip through the 'Terms and Conditions'. Unfortunately, this part of the account creation process is just so long and hard to read that sometimes even I am guilty of skipping through them. Do you think that maybe by changing the way this section is displayed to consumers, they might actually read through its contents properly?