by Julia Bernd | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Project News, Resources/How-Tos, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
To help CS teachers tie privacy concepts more closely to traditional CS curriculum content — i.e. programming — the Teaching Privacy team created three new programming exercises to add to our Teaching Privacy/TROPE curriculum: Mapping Geotagged Tweets:...
by Florin Langer | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Online Is Real, Sharing Releases Control
Oakland police officers’ likes, follows, and comments implicated them in a sexual misconduct investigation. Some had strong privacy settings but some didn’t, and investigators seem to have pieced together their roles through the profiles of those that didn’t. Some of...
by Julia Bernd | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog, Sharing Releases Control
Our advice about online sharing generally has two sides: If you share something online (at all), assume that it could be exposed to a much larger audience than you originally intend. If someone else shares something with you that you want to reshare, ask them first....
by Julia Bernd | May 9, 2016 | Blog, Online Is Real, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
This happened a couple months ago: An acquaintance (we’ll call him Egbert) who was estranged from his wife (we’ll call her Namaa) became drunkenly angry about her refusal to communicate with him, and began talking at length about how he was going to kill her. Not just...
by Melody Valdez | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Sharing Releases Control
Recently, the “Most Used Words” Facebook quiz has been gaining popularity with over sixteen million users across the globe. However, a majority of these users are unaware that playing the quiz discloses personal data about themselves to a company called...
by Melody Valdez | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog, Privacy Requires Work, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
With the rapid growth of the Internet in today’s digital age, resulting in Big Data that is continuously growing and replicating, it is becoming impossible to completely delete any information that one shares online. It is important to realize that others can...
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