Privacy & Confidentiality

           Over the past 2 decades, technology has increasingly affected all ways of the modern day professional. We are now at a place where most of our communication is being done through email, meanwhile, the increasing trend of professional journals moving away from printed formats to being exclusively online is staggering. New media has become a new way of life, so to speak. Since nearly all information is stored electronically, whether it's a presentation, phone numbers, sensitive documents, we've become more dependent on upon the technology to "intelligently" perform in a professional environment. However, there is always two sides to a coin and due to the increased speed in communication and information exchange also has great potential for violation of some of code of ethics.

          Let's take a look at Facebook for example, at one point we were able to post any picture or comment to the  public. This proved to be a problem for users because some thought it was cute to let everyone know your entire life story. This is good news for stalkers, groupies, psychos, your exes but bad for the average user like you and me. Facebook is continually making efforts to limit this but my question to you is who is in charge of securing all of our personal profile information. if you think that's scary watch this little clip:

Let's face it ladies and gentleman, Facebook is not  the social media engine you thought it was meant to be. These issues are dangerous and can be possibly used against us. This invasion of privacy is starting to sound more like a wicked plan or trick to use the fear of the public from 9/11 as a way to "fight terrorism". Wouldn't you feel a bit uneasy that someone, somewhere has your pics, status updates, birthdays and places visited on a database. After watching the video, talk to me, honestly,

about how you feel about the direction America is going and what do you think you might do to prevent this future catastrophe from happening. Deuces.