Privacy & Confidentiality

What is privacy and confidentiality? According to Accurate & Reliable Dictionary, privacy means "the the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others" and according to Wikipedia, confidentiality can be defined as "ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to have access". In the new media era, sometimes it is hard to protect one's privacy and remain confidentially. For instance, most of the people have shopped online before, and those data or information collected from us are stored in the database in which they are long term accessible by others. Those companies who has our information might sell our information to companies who sends advertisements, such as email spams. There are many websites, like facebook claims to protect our privacy and circulation confidentiality. we can find "privacy" and "term of use" underneath facebook's homepage where it lists the protection over user's information. In facebook, there is a privacy management, in which users can easily controlling on what portions of information can being access and who can accessing to their information. However, there is one thing facebook can't protecting our privacy or information confidentiality, that is the tag feature. Friends can easily tag you on a photo that you don't want to show to anyone. However, you have no control over it unless you ask your friend to remove that photo. In order for a person to have their privacy and confidentiality in the information age, they must have freedom to share and connect, ownership and control over the information. However, I feel it is impossible in the information age.