16 August 2019 — Complete the Internet Scavenger Hunt and Privacy
Working with a partner, students will complete the Internet Scavenger Hunt from Wednesday.
In today's lesson, students are first introduced to the fact that data is everywhere. People are
'giving off data' and providing data to others all the time. Sometimes this data can be directly
linked to an individual; sometimes not.
Read each scenerio below (many are based on actual events).
- A boss sees an employee who called in "sick" in a picture that someone posted
on Facebook. In this picture the employee is partying the night before. The
boss fires the employee.
- A company who has contracts with the Federal Government doesn't want to hire you
because a Facebook friend leaves lots of enthusiastic "legalize marijuana"
postings on your wall.
- A teacher is fired because there's a picture of this teacher holding alcoholic drinks
on her Facebook.
- Someone's Netflix rental viewing history is being used as evidence in a murder case
because this person rented a lot of horror movies.
- An 18-year-old boy is charged with distributing child pornography when he uses his cell
phone to send naked images of his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend to his friends.
Make a journal entry in Word or Google Docs to be uploaded to
TurnItIn for each of the scenerios. Include a response for the following:
- Identify the scenerio (by number is fine)
- Did the people have the right to use the information they did or should it have been private? Why?
- Are the people who were affected by the use of this information at fault? Why?
- Summarize your journal with: What might other people think abut you based on data that you
may have generated online (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Netflix, e-mail, Amazon,
reward programs, etc.)