Answer to Question #227310 in Law for nthabi

Question

What is the impact of social media on the constitutional right to privacy

Answer 1

Social networking has drastically changed the way people interact with their friends, associates and family members. Nowadays, hackers prowl the social media networks looking for victims. They tend to use the shortened URLs like those which are created with bit.ly. They use these shortened URLs to trick their victims into visiting harmful sites or to inject viruses into their computers or mobile phones.

The most perplexing impact that social media has on the right to privacy is the strange way people seem to be ready and willing to share so much of their private lives. Some argue that people don’t understand how much information is actually collected but that is not the case