“Vulnerable Information” Privacy has become a prominent topic in academic and social debate throughout the country. In “Term of Service” by Jacob Silverman, Silverman argues that American citizens today are unaware that their private information is often shown and are no longer safe from the public eye. After all, the integration of social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter has made it impossible to keep anything private. Sharing life events on social media has become the new social norm in the United States. However, this new trend has left the online community with a false sense of security, leaving them venerable against data mining, profiling, and unknown surveillance issues by third party miners across the country. With no end to this threat, how can causal social media users defend themselves without any assistants? The federal government should adopt stronger privacy laws like they have in Europe. They should come up with a digital bill of reforms to help better protect the online community, better inform the public about data mining threats, and companies should get government approval for any data retrieval before they are used for financial gains. Nowadays, social media touches nearly every part of our lives. Industry or domains such as governments, military, corporations, financial institutions, and hospitals collect, process and store a great deal of confidential information on computers and transmits that data across networks to other
The right to privacy is granted to all American citizens under the fourth amendment. However, this rule doesn’t seem to apply to us anymore in modern times. The main purpose of technology and the internet are to give people more ‘freedom’, and to connect us with the world much faster. But this freedom comes with a price; that is privacy. Privacy is being invaded in numerous ways through everyday devices since an enourmous are being surveillanced. The use and advancements of technology has invaded privacy greatly because of social media and trackers on people’s everyday devices, therefore citizens should be educated on technology use. A main reason that tech surveillance is an invasion to privacy is because of the use of social media.
The quest for privacy and security has always been a long and arduous one, as America’s citizens “no longer care” about the lack of integrity which the American government is showing towards its citizens (Sullivan). “When you have it, you don’t notice it. Only when it’s gone do you wish you’d done more to protect it.” Sullivan explains in Privacy under attack, but does anybody care?. After the National Security Agency was accused of “systematically collecting information” on citizens’ phone calls, emails, and countless other sources, “the news media treated it as a complete revelation” (Whitehead). People throughout the country protested and condemned the government—all while they failed to realize that we have consciously permitted the government to collect and secure our private information by “giving our personal information” to companies who ask for it, and by “allowing our personal lives to be posted on media sources such as Facebook and Twitter” (Washington). Ironically enough, we ourselves have
Over the course of the past few decades, technology has been on a fast track to more advanced opportunities for communication. These developments have increased efficiency in society, however, it is evident that the basic values, such as privacy of personal information, are compromised significantly. Privacy is an essential element of a free society and without which, individuals would lose the ability to interact with one another in private. With the advancements of technology there is a clash between an individuals right to guard their personal information and the power of the cyber world to penetrate that information. Innovative technologies such as various forms of social media and surveillance are invading the freedom to said privacy.
The emerge of our privacy invasion has mount with government surveillance by the U.S national security system (Baumer, Roth, Epstein, 2014). Government surveillance and social website such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube are source of privacy invasion (Cole, 2015). Connecting to social website to communication with friends, family, and co-worker; sharing, updating news, and information which overcast privacy according to Cole, 2015. Many Americans became occupied to social media and forget to think about the important of confidentiality and privacy. Multiple surges website captured personal profile once information shared with the media. This information became accessible to the public, and privacy can no longer be private that lead to the erosion of privacy (Cole, 2015)
Social media’s seamless integration into daily life and routine has rarely been questioned. That is until it was revealed to the public, that the U.S. government and many major corporations, such as Google and Facebook, have been monitoring each and every phone call, email, and text message post 9/11. This information was revealed to the public in 2013 by Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee, he has been living in Russia ever since due to concerns of safety. Unethical corporate and government surveillance has resulted in the drastic reduction of the basic human right to maintain a sense of privacy and security.
Social Media has become universal in the day to day lives of Americans. Every ad, television show, and even food products incorporate social media for revenue. With recent revelations concerning social media involvement with spying it should be common knowledge to be wary what you post, yet for many people social media is now a memoir. By simply clicking a button you can post your life online for anyone to see. Although it's believed to be for the greater good, the use of social media to spy on citizens an invasion of privacy and a direct violation of the fourth Amendment.
The Internet Won’t Hug You Back In “The Social Media Explosion,” author Marcia Clemmitt writes that social media is becoming more widely used. The popularity is causing invasion of privacy, leading to more community involvement, and affecting personal relationships. The author demonstrates that no one is exempt from having their private information used on various technology platforms. Targets of this incursion have no safeguard because the United States has no data protections laws.
The United States is a culture of sharing. People share their personal lives on almost every aspects with social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The idea of free online services have attract people’s natural instinct to indulge themselves into these free services. What they do not know is how these “free-services” ask in return. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have revolutionized how people connect with one another and the way people retrieve resources, which also allows massive private information accessible to organizations. In the article called “Twitter’s Lucrative Data Mining Business” published in The Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Dwoskin talks about Twitter’s disclosure that its company has “$47.5 million came from selling off its data to a fast-growing group of companies that analyze the data for insights into news events and trends” (Dwoskin). Although the internet has opened doors to many business opportunities and innovations, it has invaded social media users’ private information and often exposes them to unauthorized organizations such Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat for monetary gain. Legal standing has make it possible for these companies to appropriately set user’s policies regarding the disclosure of user’s privacy, but people often disregard on how companies are distributing their information that may expose their privacy to unauthorized organizations.
Social Media is a current way in which people are using to interact with one another daily. Since the launch of various Social Networking Sites (SNS) its been a huge attraction in a new way to share information with others and correspond with interests of your choice in many different forms. Although social media sites allow users to share information with friends and other sites on the internet, many people are unaware of how their privacy is getting out. Now that the expansion of global connection through these social media networking sites are so highly present in todays society, giving us easy access to information, the lack of one's privacy is being diminished. Everyday peoples privacy rights are
In the 21st century, modern life is created and molded around technology. Your usual day of going to work, browsing the internet, calling a friend, or using GPS is technology’s gold mine of intel gathering on everything that was, is, or will be you. You are recorded through security cameras and captured through cell phone videos and imaging anywhere you go. Your cookies are traced and sent to advertisers and your phone calls are recorded from towers and archived. This has caused the argument that true privacy no longer exists, and it’s a sound one. History shows that citizens fought for privacy more vivaciously in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. However, since the boom of the digital era, people have been resigning themselves to the fact that their data and personal information will be seen, monitored, and used in exchange for security, convenience, and entertainment.
The almost omnipresent Internet transforms our lives, connecting us to family, friends, and the world in ways inconceivable only a few years ago. Through social media, we actively participate in creating, editing, and consuming a never-ending stream of data. Private corporations and protagonists of political or social change all vie to reach and engage highly targeted
In less than two decades, social media has revolutionized modern communication and information sharing. What began as a simple form of social networking has turned into innumerable platforms for people around the globe to share ideas, create and share businesses, promote brands, read news from various sources, as well as share and find vast amounts of information, among many other uses. Thus, with a few clicks of a button, people are now able to interact with someone on the other side of the world. The capabilities created through social media’s many uses have forever changed global politics, business, and interpersonal communication.
Technology, especially social media, in today’s day in age has become so incredibly prevalent in our daily lives. It has become more of a priority updating our statuses and posting pictures of every event and moment of our lives than actually what is happening in real life and what is going on right in front of us. Technology has literally taken over our lives in every way and eliminating any concept of privacy. Technology is used to order any product online, even groceries, baby items, laundry services to name a few. It’s used to pay bills, communicate, turn off and on the heating in the house, surveillance in your home and last but not least to document every single second of our lives. When technology is being used it is constantly being evaluated, logged and analyzed not always to the benefit of the person using it.
Social media can be defined as websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or participate in social networking. As a phenomenon of only the past couple of decades, it has certainly changed the way we live our everyday lives. Whether socially or professionally, it opens the door to incredible amounts of information; most of which is freely shared.
Social networks and the use of them are becoming increasingly common in today’s globalizing world. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr and other social media networks have become fixtures in our culture and have become a part of the lives of its everyday users. The Internet, in part, has allowed social media networks to establish a way to transfer, store, and share private information about those that use it. This information can shared with other corporations and governments which can then be used to track, monitor, and create a perfect agent of the user. The private information shared can typically be done without knowledge of the user, but with the consent given under the “terms of service agreement” on the initial sign up. Privacy