Privacy

Privacy has become a huge issue with the emergence of new media. All new media incorporates the sharing and viewing of information. This information can sometimes lead to debates from privacy and ownership. One problem that I've witnessed so far is the debate of ownership with regards to information stored on cloud networks.

Companies like amazon sell eBooks on their cloud network. Subscribers pay for subscriptions to these eBooks online and are able access them whenever they want. However these subscribers don't own any physical part of the book. These eBooks are still property of amazon. Amazon is entitled to do anything they choose with these books. Some subscribers have had their entire library deleted and there isn't anything they can do about it. According to the ownership rights Amazon has not violated any of their subscribers rights.

Another reason privacy has become an issue is because since new media is meant to be shared there really isn't a filter for who can and cannot view your content. By posting up information on the internet you are technically welcoming the entire world to view it. Even your "private" emails aren't so private. As a matter of fact your emails belong to the server that hosts them and they reserve the rights to these emails.

With the spread of new media and growth of the internet there will be no such thing as privacy. It seems that once something has entered the public domain, it will stay public. As a precaution if it is something you consider private then i suggest that you don't put it on anything except an hard drive you have at home. And even if that isn't enough hide that hard drive under your bed!