Privacy
The increase in the popularity of new media turned information and data to be extremely accessible and therefore has brought many challenges with it related to privacy and confidentiality. The more the usage in social media increases and more information is being sent through internet platforms and databases, the more our information is exposed and our privacy is being affected. So many people have private content on their laptop or content that they share with certain people and they don't want to share it with the world. The truth is, that whatever is being sent out there through the internet can be hacked and used by others. In addition, so many companies and social platforms are using our information when we are not even aware of it. Facebook, for example, has these huge databases of their user's information and by selling it to other companies they make a profit, and that's why this app is free. This is serious because people use their credit card information on certain websites or personal information on social media that they don't want to share with anyone else and therefore the confidentiality of this information is important.
The increase in the popularity of new media turned information and data to be extremely accessible and therefore has brought many challenges with it related to privacy and confidentiality. The more the usage in social media increases and more information is being sent through internet platforms and databases, the more our information is exposed and our privacy is being affected. So many people have private content on their laptop or content that they share with certain people and they don't want to share it with the world. The truth is, that whatever is being sent out there through the internet can be hacked and used by others. In addition, so many companies and social platforms are using our information when we are not even aware of it. Facebook, for example, has these huge databases of their user's information and by selling it to other companies they make a profit, and that's why this app is free. This is serious because people use their credit card information on certain websites or personal information on social media that they don't want to share with anyone else and therefore the confidentiality of this information is important.
I agree that in modern times, there are privacy concerns with big tech companies collecting our information and selling it. However, I do believe there is a silver lining. By collecting and curating all this metadata from users, companies like Google are able to feed their AI systems with information that increases efficiencies in our daily lives. For example, our location information allows Google Maps to accurately show how much traffic there is, or how crowded subway lines are at various times of the day.
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