Privacy and Confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality are related to new media for countless reasons. In the example of social media, such as blogs, Facebook, and Twitter, everything you post is public regardless of what your user settings are. If it's published, anyone who has the means of seeing it will be able to. Nothing is every truly private on the Internet. Employers may find some "inappropriate" content on someone's page and decide not to hire him  or her. The problem here is that you don't know when they are accessing your information and what they are doing with it (maybe selling it to other people and organizations). A general guideline is: if you don't want it to be known to the world, don't post it.