Privacy Rights is important!

Based on a news article from ABC News(2010) reported that the popular social networking-Facebook admits to breach privacy. This news article reported that the application of Facebook were giving the the opportunity to Facebook member's name to companies to track people by building databases of them. According to Fred Dutton (2010) found out a report by Wall Street Journal saying that all the games in Facebook such as Farmville, Mafia Wars and the others are the applications that gather personal information and sell information to advertising and internet. This somehow have bring issues to the society. Dr Shock (2010) stated that the danger of facebook are identity theft and threats to personal safety which are like stalking, or threatening. Therefore, personal data is very important and we all shall protect it together. Geoff Duncan (2010) reported that European Commission an organization has drafted the data protection policies as this can be concerned for the issue cased by Facebook for breaching privacy. Other than the data protection policies, we as a facebook user should know how to protect our privacy rights as well. Kurt Opsahl (2010) to protect out privacy is to customize privacy settings which is the most protective option. Other than that, ethical publishing is also important in Facebook because Chroman Bier (2010) stated that ethical publishing in social networking is to share messages and not to encourage spamming. Overall, I think that privacy is important even though social networking is to make connections with people but we have to be smart to protect ourselves too to avoid our personal information got track by advertisers or any other people easily because it is our rights and ethical publishing in social networking is also required because it is related to privacy protection too which is should not breach about people's personal information using social networking because it is not ethical!

References

ABC News, 2010, Facebook admits privacy breach, viewed 10 November 2010,

Bier, C 2010, Ethics in social network marketing, Ezinemark.com, viewed on 10 November 2010, http://business.ezinemark.com/ethics-in-social-network-marketing-16c7aef674c.html

Duncan, G 2010, EU outlining personal data protection rules, viewed 10 November 2010, http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/eu-outlining-personal-data-protection-rules/

Dutton, F 2010, Facebook game shut for privacy breach, viewed 10 November 2010,http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-10-18-facebook-games-shut-for-privacy-breach

Opshal, K 2010, How to protect your privacy on facebook places, viewed 10 November 2010, http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/how-protect-your-privacy-facebook-places

Shock, D 2010, The Danger of Facebook, viewed 10 November 2010, http://www.shockmd.com/2010/01/04/the-dangers-of-facebook/