Objectives:
Students will learn about the privacy concerns of advocacy groups.
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Students will learn about current legislative issues.
Give your students a questionnaire about their views on privacy.
Example
What is your privacy worth?
What information about you or your parents do you think should be considered private?
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Why are issues of personal-information privacy so important today?
On a handout cite the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. Cite a few cases that have changed the interpretation of how privacy is applied to this amendment. (i.e. Roe vs. Wade). List the advocacy groups that are concerned about privacy issues and their purpose. Explain the government’s position on not regulating e-commerce.
Next have students go to two or more of the privacy advocate Web sites. Have them read about current legislative issues, current press releases and other pertinent information about these organizations. Have students write a report on their findings.
Do a follow-up questionnaire.
Example
Where should we draw the line between privacy and the common good?
What do you think is the “Privacy Paradox’?
Where do you think the major threat to privacy today comes fromgovernment or big business?
Do you believe that in order to protect our privacy, regulations are necessary?
Is privacy even possible in the new millennium?
Is privacy a commodity rather than a right?
Is technology changing our understanding of what is private?
Materials to be Used
Computer with Internet access
Internet Web sites
Books, newspaper articles, and magazine articles relating to privacy issues
Paper, pen and/or pencils
@SH:Bibliography
(Teachers)
Agre, Philip E. Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape. MIT Press, August, 1998. (A collection of essays representing European, Canadian and U. S. points of view on how technology is changing our understanding of what is private).
Alderman, Ellen and Caroline Kennedy. The Right to Privacy. Vintage Books, February, 1997. (An excellent book on privacy cases).
Branscomb, Anne Wells. Who Owns Information: From Privacy to Public Access. Basic Books, April, 1995. (A useful book about the ownership of information).
Cate, Fred H. Privacy in the Information Age. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. (Impact of technology on information privacy)
DeCew, Judith Wagner. In Pursuit of Privacy: Law Ethics and the Rise of Technology. Cornell University Press, June, 1997. (Legal discussions on the right to privacy and how it should be guaranteed in various contemporary contexts).
Etzioni, Amitai. The Limits of Privacy. Basic Books, April, 2000. (Discusses why the main danger to privacy comes from the private sector).
Garfinkel, Simson and Deborah Russell. PGP: Pretty Good Privacy. O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., January, 1994. (Technical user’s guide about cryptography and privacy).
Garfinkel, Simson and Deborah Russell. Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century. O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., January, 2000. (Explores today’s threats to privacy and how they might be stopped).
Gelman, Bob and Stanton McCandish. Protecting Yourself Online: The Definitive Resource on Safety, Freedom, and Privacy in Cyberspace. Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., January, 1998. (Good guide to self-protection on the Internet)
Henderson, Harry. Privacy in the Information Age. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1999. (Tells about the impact of technology on information privacy).
Pfaffenberger, Bryan. Protect Your Privacy on the Internet. Wiley, Jojn & Sons, Inc., April, 1997. (Informs you about software and information necessary to protect yourself on the Internet).
Rotenberg, Marc. Privacy law source Book 1999: United States law, International Law and Recent Developments. Washington, D.C., EPIC (Excellent book on privacy laws and issues).
Smedinghoff, Thomas J., Andrew R. Basile, Geoffrey G. Gilbert, and Lorijean C. Oei Strand. Online Law: the SPA’s Legal Guide to Doing Business on the Internet. Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., January, 1995. ( A reference book about how the law applies to the online world).
(Students)
Alderman, Ellen and Caroline Kennedy. The Right to Privacy. Vintage Books, February 1997. (An excellent book about privacy cases).
Gelman, Bob and Stanton McCandish. Protecting Yourself Online: The Definitive Resource on Safety, Freedom, and Privacy in Cyberspace. Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., January, 1998. (Good guide to self-protection on the Internet).
Gottfried, Ted. Privacy: Individual Right vs. Social Needs (Issue and Debate). Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1994. (Discusses court cases and issues conducive to high school age readers).
Hendricks, Evan, Trudy Hayden and Jack D. Novik. Your Rights to Privacy: A Basic Guide to Legal Rights in an Information Society. (An American Civil Liberties Union Handbook). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. (Provides guidelines to individual rights to privacy using a question and answer format).
Noon, E. Personal Privcy Protection Guide: A Practical Guide to Protecting Your Privacy. ONOne, Inc., June, 1998. (Good guide for protecting your privacy).
Sykes, Charles J. The End of Privacy. St. Martin’s Press, Inc., September 1999. (Traces the roots of privacy from the Constitution to present day).