Communication : Communication Privacy Management

When there maybe a conflict or dilemma in relation to sharing information and maintaining confidentiality.

Privacy is what allows people to feel secure in their surroundings. With privacy, one is allowed to withhold or distribute the information they want by choice, but the ability to have that choice is being violated in today’s society. Benjamin Franklin once said, “He who sacrifices freedom or liberty will eventually have neither.” And that’s the unfortunate truth that is and has occurred in recent years. Privacy, especially in such a fast paced moving world, is extremely vital yet is extremely violated, as recently discovered the NSA has been spying on U.S. citizens for quite a while now; based on the Fourth Amendment, the risk of leaked and distorted individual information, as well as vulnerability to lack of anonymity.

When looking into theories and how it affects personnel in day-to-day lives depends on the individual themselves. While exploring Communication Privacy Management Theory, I can relate to this on almost a daily basis. With being in the military, communication is happening all the time, from feedback sessions, to evaluations to finding solutions, but it is about how the two people involved do with the information and how much is shared and how it is controlled. I am a private person and I do not like sharing personal details about myself or feelings. Feedback sessions can be difficult to receive and give private information about someone. It can be a time where someone feels vulnerable, exposed and thinking about how much do I want to tell this person, what can and will they do once they know this information or simply how can I

Is the government supposed to protect our privacy or invade it? The FBI has had many cases where they were given information from an individual's cell phone and they got a warrant to search the phone. It seems so simple until it is brought to the attention of the cell phone company that access to this one person's phone will open the possibility that the security of other user's privacy could be in question. Apple users agree to be loyal customers as long as their personal information is kept as private as possible. Everyone knows that the government already monitors everything, and everything done online is out there forever. The only harm Apple did in this situation was hurt the FBI's feelings. They thought that they were entitled to everything

The elements of bailment surround the ownership, rights to and possession of property and who is in control of the property. Possession and ownership of the property belongs to the bailor. The bailor is someone that owns personal property or has the right to possess or control the property. The bailee is someone that has accepted the possession and control transferred to them by the bailor. Responsibility and action involving the property must to set forth and understood by both parties, the bailor and the bailee but directed by the wishes of the bailor. The final intent is that the bailee will return the possession to the bailor because of an agreement between the two parties (Mallor. 2016).

I recently had an experience that very much involved Communication Privacy Management theory. One of my older sisters just found out she was pregnant with her first daughter. As soon as she found out, she shared this private information with my mom in confidence. She had some privacy boundaries for the information, meaning that she didn’t want to tell anyone else just yet, until she had a chance to tell the whole family at the same time at a get-together we were having that weekend – she wanted it to be a surprise for everyone. A few days before the family get-together, I was shopping with my mom and she blurted out that “Candy hasn’t been feeling so good due to the pregnancy….” As soon as the words escaped her mouth she immediately gasped,

I thought your tactics to try and gather information could be developed. You did not really try to make it a conversation, but kept asking me the same question even when I didn't answer them. I thought it might be more beneficial to reframe questions about what my side wanted to see happen with the property, as opposed to asking in the same way after you didn't get the answer you

Nowadays, people have so many strategy to get information about individual privacy. Privacy is information that concerns the personal data of someone, and that information may only known by other people through the person’s consent. People need to keep it to their selves. There are two reasons why people need to keep their privacy to their selves.

I. Summarize the Theory Communication Privacy Management Theory, created by Sandra Petronio, is an interpretive theory that explains how revealing private information might strengthen your relationships with the important people in your life, or even help to start new relationships that could become beneficial for your life. According to Kory Floyd, “In most cases, however, our decisions about sharing information are influenced by the people to whom we are disclosing it, by how much we trust them, and by how much they have disclosed to us” (Floyd 328). Sharing confidential information tends to help reduce your privacy and can help to manage relationships.

Simmel’s defines secrecy as a condition, and researches relationships from this aspect of giving and receiving knowledge and keeping secrets. He describes friendship and intimate relationships, whereby friendship creates more secretiveness and discretion than that of a more intimate relationship. Simmel argues that modern societies are systems that operate from a high degree of secrecy, and notes the money economy as one example of how people can hide much of what they transact and acquire.

Privacy is a very touchy subject these days and the knife seems to cut both ways when it comes to who should know what, and when they should know it. On one hand, the privacy of consumer information becomes a bigger concern every day as companies are hacked and information is stolen. There are laws that mandate what companies must to in order to protect this information but I also feel that organizations have their own internal obligation to do what’s right for

Everyone goes through situations in which they form new relationships with people they previously did not know. For example, when a student moves onto a college campus for his or her freshman year, the student will have to go through the process of making new friends and getting to know his or her roommate. The social penetration theory of communication explains how new relationships form and the levels a relationship must go through before it can be described as being friends.

Through the use of privacy boundaries to divide private and public information CPM contends that when we disclose private information we depend on a rule-based management system to control the level of accessibility and privacy boundaries to govern self-disclosure. As a way to manage privacy boundaries individuals formulate their

Human beings value their privacy and the protection of their personal sphere of life. They value some control over who knows what about them. They certainly do not want their personal information to be accessible to just anyone at any time. But recent advances in information technology threaten privacy and have reduced the amount of control over personal data and open up the possibility of a range of negative consequences as a result of access to personal data. Data privacy or information privacy is the area of information technology (IT) that deals with the ability of an organization or individual to decide what data in a computer system can be shared with third parties.

Cross-sex relationships are becoming increasingly more popular than ever before. According to Schoonover and McEwan of Predicting the audience challenge in cross-sex friendships, men and women have complimenting communication styles and this is what makes cross-sex friendships so appealing as it grows to be more accepted (Schoonover, McEwan, 2014). In analyzing the benefits for both sexes, the most significant challenges, and the cultural or societal challenges, it can be concluded that while cross-sex friendships come with their own trials, it can be a very rewarding relationship.