While the new media has been very useful impactful in our day and age, we constantly face a threat to our privacy. While social media platforms with its huge amounts of users are always growing, cybersecurity has certainly been lacking a real protection. Just during the past couple of years, we've had major news about platforms such as Google and Facebook wrongly using its users' saved data including personal information, preferences, pictures, and even location. What's even more worse is when we know that they sell our information for billions of dollars and the companies that invest heavily into obtaining people's data make their business decisions and aim at certain audiences based on the obtained information. Still to this day, we hear news about data breaching which puts us a society in a great jeopardy. It's not at all comfortable to know that your information and even info such as what kind of things you go shopping for are all out there in the open. It's certainly up to the government to step in and apply even more regulations to protect us all from these breaches and wrongful usage of our personal information. So far, we don't see much result but hopefully in the near future, we'll see a bigger shield that would protect us and our information from leaking anywhere but our private space.
1. What is file sharing? File sharing has been an important and very useful feature in new media technology. It allows us to transfer files between computers in a very fast and swift manner. It saves a lot of time and certainly proved to be very efficient in every professional or educational fields. Sharing photos, documents, or any other kind of data is super convenient. For instance, on a daily basis, I share pictures with my family or friends through AirDrop which lets us transfer files between our phones or even from phone to computer within seconds even if the file is over 300 megabytes. So it's definitely one of the biggest digital features that we have the luxury of having. 2. What is P2P File sharing? P2P file sharing also known as Peer to Peer sharing, is a way of sharing digital media directly from one person to another and sharing on a platform to which everyone has access to. Napster and Limewire were one of the mo...
I totally agree with you. Cybersecurity is one major issues that we have to face in our society. Not only that we have to deal with the social media's taking our personal information and sell it to other agency for profit and we have to face the fact that internet security can be another threat of taking user's private information. Anly thing that is posted to the internet is free for grab by big companies and for hackers. Internet is never a save spot for me. We need those big social media plateforms to better project the user's information and privacy. I hope this can happen one day where no one have to worry about cyber security issues.
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