Privacy and Confidentiality - Exercise
This exercise continues the workflow from the prior lesson. You’ll do a quick privacy “recon” on public websites, then write a short reflection that you will submit on the next page.
Objective
Describe the issues related to privacy and privacy law.
Instructions
In this exercise, you will locate privacy information on the Web and reflect on how privacy issues affect you and your business.
- Go to www.yahoo.com.
- Look for a people/identity/lookup feature (site navigation changes over time).
- Search for your name. If available, narrow the results by city/state. What information is publicly available? Is it accurate? How easy is it to remove or correct?
- Visit EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) and skim a few current privacy issues (e.g., data brokers, surveillance, consumer tracking, biometrics).
Discussion Prompt
After completing the research above, write your response in the text area below and submit it to continue.
- Do you think there should be laws protecting individual privacy?
- If yes, what rights should be protected (and why)?
- If no, why not (and what would you rely on instead)?