Privacy & Confidentiality

With new media and the internet, it appears our personal and private information are no longer considered private as it is being revealed in the public domain.  For example, social networking sites and video logs (YouTube), are revealing a lot of personal information of our daily life.  As a result of this, privacy and confidentiality are no longer maintained and is considered nonexistent in relations to new media.  Once people upload certain confidential and private videos online, such as to YouTube, this is now in the public domain.  Although the video can be taken down, it does not mean that the video does not exist elsewhere as it could have been replicated or saved on the Internet "cloud".  Other forms of new media, such as cell phones and skype calls may not be as private as one believes.  Somewhere out there, there is bound to be a recording of the latest conversation the person has had over the telephone or internet.  This is similar to instant messaging chats and information posted on social networking sites.

Therefore, with new media, there does not appear to be a place for privacy and confidentiality.  As with the five C's of new media, your private and confidential are most likely available to the community you are part of and to collaborate in this community, one would need to communicate with each other certain personal information, such as e-mail and contact information.  Thus, with the increase rise of new media, there appears to be a decreasing effect on privacy and confidentiality.