New Media strikes this hurdle every time something advances. We are now at a point in time where the Internet is a digital database that allows access to pretty much anything you want to know. Even restricted material or extremely personal material could be found and traced by someone who has the right access.
The surface fear of it all is the notion that someone has access to your personal information so they might stalk you or take all of your money.
The ultimate fear in my eyes is the limit that has not been set. When is information and privacy capped when we have access to so much?
New media will always have this problem to some degree, the one thing that could prevent this medium to bite us back is the universal understanding of privacy that every individual craves. As long as we want it, it shall be achieved, so things like identity theft or blind date murders won't happen as much. People know and respect it, and if it stops is when things might become dangerous for everyone.
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