Privacy Laws and Social Media: Society Encased in a Paradoxical Struggle During the process of researching the subject of social media, I encountered several articles that discussed the topic of privacy. The authors of these articles discussed that the rise in technological advancements led to an increase of information being shared online. This topic intrigued me and it led to me researching further. This topic piqued my interest further as social media was the cause of privacy laws being passed in the United States. Interestingly, the laws that I researched were only state laws. My objective in this paper is to thoroughly answer the question, "How have laws regarding privacy changed because of social media" by implementing five articles,
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In Mary Madden's article, "Privacy Management on Social Media Sites" she shares how social media users manage their accounts. The methods used to manage their accounts are deleting comments, untagging photos, unfriending someone, choosing certain privacy options -it could be partially restricted or completely restricted to the public-, etc. (2-3). Madden establishes her ethos by implementing other sources for background information and using statistics. In Theodore F. Claypoole's article, "Privacy and Social Media" he addresses the difficulty of regulating privacy in social media, but states examples of laws in the U.S. that facilitated the regulation. In Simson Garfinkel's article, "Privacy Requires Security, Not Abstinence" the subject of his article is similar to Claypoole's article, but they differ in that Garfinkel expresses historical context by sharing information on the Constitution and the 9/11 terrorist attack in relation to the topic of privacy (2 and 4-5). Finally in the article, "State Laws Related to Internet Privacy" it lists multiple state laws involved with Internet privacy but are divided into different categories: "e-Reader Privacy," "Privacy Policies For Websites or Online Services," "Privacy of Personal Information Held by Internet Service providers," etc.
In Mary Madden's article, "Privacy Management on Social Media Sites" she shares how social media users manage their accounts. The methods used to manage their accounts are deleting comments, untagging photos, unfriending someone, choosing certain privacy options -it could be partially restricted or completely restricted to the public-, etc. (2-3). Madden establishes her ethos by implementing other sources for background information and using statistics. In Theodore F. Claypoole's article, "Privacy and Social Media" he addresses the difficulty of regulating privacy in social media, but states examples of laws in the U.S. that facilitated the regulation. In Simson Garfinkel's article, "Privacy Requires Security, Not Abstinence" the subject of his article is similar to Claypoole's article, but they differ in that Garfinkel expresses historical context by sharing information on the Constitution and the 9/11 terrorist attack in relation to the topic of privacy (2 and 4-5). Finally in the article, "State Laws Related to Internet Privacy" it lists multiple state laws involved with Internet privacy but are divided into different categories: "e-Reader Privacy," "Privacy Policies For Websites or Online Services," "Privacy of Personal Information Held by Internet Service providers," etc.