A major concern with the growth of technology is privacy. 'Internet hacking is fast becoming a significant threat not only to businesses, but government entities, online communities, and idicidual Internet users as well' (Tang & Bagchi & Jain 2009). With new communication technology dominating social and work life, information that people believe is confidentially being exchanged is becoming dangerously vulnerable to exposure and the privacy is no longer there.
As Australian Press Council chair Julian Disney tells Reporter Tony Jones in a July 2011 Lateline interview, 'We've got hacking, we've got dishonest obtaining of information, we've got other issues that have been raised about ownership and diversity.'
As clever as technology has become in allowing immediate mass communication through devices such as mobile phones, computers - internet, message boards, IM (Instant Messenger), video game consoles, smart phones and social media, technology can, and has been, out-smartened by hackers and private investigators who can get hold of almost any information they desire.
New communication technology 'is interactive: Like the telephone and the telegraph (and unlike radio or television' (Bargh & McKenna 2003), which we consider old communication technology). Old communication technologies also include speaking, writing, and sketching which are the most traditional forms of communication.
'The Internet is the latest in a series of technological advances that have changed the world in fundamental ways' (Bargh & McKenna 2003). Having such a dramatic impact on society, it is wondered what impact will the future new communication technologies have on society when internet is considered an old communication technology.
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