Privacy

Privacy is something that everyone is concerned about, even more so when they have social media accounts. It's always a concern, especially when one shares any sort of personal information. Every company has different privacy and legal terms that's available for people to see if they're curious. This is to provide transparency since it's an ongoing issue nowadays. In the article from The Washington Post, Svitek and Anderson discuss how approximately 300,000 students and faculty from the University of Maryland, College Park had their information compromised. A hacker breached into the system and made copies of records and information of the victims. No information was changed or removed, but it's definitely still unfortunate and alarming how someone bypassed the system. Despite how great of a school UMCP is, it'd make me question whether its systems are safe and trustworthy, even after the incident.

Regarding social media nowadays, companies have "beefed up" their privacy settings. On every social networking site (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), one is able to customize the way their profile is viewed and to who. In this day and age, nothing is private anymore. Even though we may delete or remove a post, the information is stored somewhere in a system. New media and privacy are definitely a concern, but the use of new media is so common among society, that it's sometimes something we don't really think about, but definitely should.

Sources:
1) University of Maryland Computer Security Breach Exposes 300,000 Records