In my research paper, I am going to talk about how people are losing their privacy with the development of new media.
On the economical perspective, the area of online information has been becoming a new way for people to make money. For example, when people buy books from the bookstore website, the website will store people's buying preference and may sell some information to the booksellers so that the booksellers are able to reach people who had bought books via this website. However, this kind of behavior seems to be unethical without customers' consents. Customers may feel so annoy when they receive different kinds of messages from some unknown sellers. Furthermore, the action of selling customers information had been invaded customers' privacy deeply. This kind of situation may make people lose the credibility to online shopping and decline the value of online stores.
On the technological perspective, new media is being developed in a rapid way. People like to upload their information online, and sometimes people have to upload their real information if they want to use certain online function. However, the security of these information are not secure at all. The reason is hackers always have the way to hack in people’s computer or the database of a certain website. This may create people’s doubt to whether or not to upload their information via Internet, because of the fearing that expose their private information.
On the moral perspectives, the using of social networking tool like Facebook has obviously been giving people a chance to show themselves in public. There are many examples are showing the loss of privacy by using Facebook. The most famous one is the lady who was an employee of Delta Air line, but was fired later when she post one picture which she wears the Delta Air line uniform on her own blog. She claims that she is innocent because she is using her own time to do blogging and the company has no rules to limit her behaviors during her private time. The important thing in this example is not about if the lady is innocent. The main point is: does the company (employer) have the right to check employees’ social networking sites or tools, and judge them because of their blogging or photos? Is this ethical? What about employees’ privacy on Internet?
Actually, one characteristic of new media is publicity.New media is more like a huge social networking tool. When people step in the area of new media, they should have the mind that they may lose their privacy. This is the same as when people walk out of their house, they will lose their privacy because many people will watch on them purposeful.The above are the general ideas that I am going to do research on my term paper.
This topic is quite interesting. I've also seen many sites which require a full info sign up to use their website and worry about my own private information as well. In facebook's case, I think they are doing okay is trying to limit private info out, but they can do better.
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