Privacy

With new media there is a new source of information that is vulnerable to security breaches. The effects can be wide reaching and across many different platforms. For example, Target is a major company with stores all around. There was a massive security breach within their system that is estimated to potentially affect around 110 million customers. Then soon afterwards Target is now pooling $100 million to advance the use of chip reading credit cards in their stores to enhance security for their customers. Another way new media is an issue for privacy is the users. There are many instances that are now cropping up that talks about the issue of catfishing. This means that one user poses as someone else on the internet and deceives another person. This can be nefarious when it comes to young children and older adult predators on the web. Many large companies like Google and Facebook are still in the midst of fully figuring out their own privacy settings for themselves and their users. New Media enables innovation and advancements, but it leaves a lot about security and privacy in the grey as people have not yet tackles these issues in full.