This is becoming a very hot topic especially with social media, digital photos and videos. In today's world, it is not uncommon for many people to have cameras on hand at all times. With smartphones becoming ever popular, pictures are being taken at a much higher rate than ever before. This is also in part, due to the fact that digital storage is becoming cheaper and more efficient. Online servers offer free storages and social media sites can handle massive amounts of photo and video uploads.
But what does this all mean? For the most part, once a photo is uploaded to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any other social media based webpage, it is almost safe to state that the photo is now permeant and will remain on the internet forever. This is especially true if the photo is of someone famous or important. This raises many concerns about privacy. Now, people can take your picture, with or without your consent, upload it to facebook and even tag you in the photo if you do not have that setting blocked.
Many people do not want their picture taken and shared with the world, but in a fast paced, digitalized world, this is becoming the norm. In 1999, Sun Microsystems’ then-CEO Scott McNealy boldly stated, “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” We can only be hopeful that the laws and regulations of privacy can keep up with the ever changing advancements in technology.
Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/state-of-the-web-who-killed-privacy/#ixzz2PQ1W1rHT
3 comments:
even if we try hard it is impossible to keep all our information 100% safe and out of internet.
Hi George. I'm one of those people that doesn't like my info all over cyber space as well. But, when you think about it, what's really private anymore. Our information is constantly shared and sold on many levels!!! I've come to grips with it all, and making sure that my actions are proper and correct to prohibit anything coming back to haunt me in the future.
It's hard to figure out a way to make it safe for people to have private information secured on the Internet, but on the Internet, people have found ways to bypass that.
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