privacy and confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality are very important in relation to new media. There are many issues that can occur when using new media. There could be instances where someone develops some new music and wants to keep it private but somehow it becomes leaked and now they have trouble collecting money for their creation. A good example of this is napster in which people could share music freely and download without having to pay for it. Confidentiality is also important because nowadays people pay bills online and shop online. People also give out email addresses, phone numbers, credit card or even social security info is very unsafe and can be transfered to third party clients by some companies web sites. I think its better safe than sorry, by keeping things like social security info, credit card info, phone numbers, and making sure the  sites being used are not going to sell your info to third party partners is the best thing a person can do. Keeping things private and confidential and out of the hands of others online is the safest thing to do.