Social Media Ethics on Privacy

Social media is now everything. People can get almost everything they want from the Internet. Since Facebook, Myspace, Google + is the way many people communicate with each other, people share a lot of their personal information such as e-mail, pictures, phone number, etc. on it. As a result, the spread and wrongful usage of personal information is becoming an issue. Thus, privacy is one of the most important concern about social media ethics. The article i read about is called "Do Google and Facebook Really Respect the Data Privacy Day?"
 

Data Privacy Day is an annual  celebration that promote the awareness about privacy and education about the best privacy practices. Both Google and Facebook recently revised their privacy policy and in the process of drawing stinging criticism from lawmakers and security experts. Although both of the two Web giants revised their privacy policies, are they really doing it to protect their customers or for its own goods? Alisdair Faulkner, chief products officers for San Jose, Calif.-based security firm ThreatMetrix said that the major reason that Google revised its privacy polity is to better serve you ads. The way how they collect your information is not just from your home computer but also from your mobile devices. Every time you log in from your smartphone, they use intelligence to track your mobile and serve you ads. At the same time, your personal information may be shared by others.

Facebook announced its Timeline which shows everything you have ever posted. Although you can set things private to avoid certain people to see it on your Facebook, it does not prevent you from surveillance about your personal information. It's all being indexed by the company which they can serve you ads or even spam/frauds, according to Faulkner. 

While people enjoy the convenience that the Internet brought to them, they are taking risks of having their personal information being exposed to the public. I think there should be some kind of laws to protect Internet users' privacy.