Young Adults

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Prepared Presentations

Videos

  • Why does your privacy matter?  Because of the Social Media Revolution – protect your personal information.
  • Several years ago, the ACLU created a satirical video intended to illustrate how new technologies and weak privacy laws could result in access to and use of personal information even in the most mundane of contexts – the pizza delivery.  While the video has been around a while, the message is still pertinent to our contemplation of data privacy issues and the potential consequences associated with large databases of personal information.
  • Project PRO: Privacy & Reputation Online, provided by ikeepsafe and American School Counselor Association, offers a video about the importance of privacy, security and online reputation.  Click on students – Digital Reputation.
  • Data Protection Day 2010 – Think Privacy by Microsoft, EUN, Council of Europe, Coface, LSTS-Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Erasmushogeschool Brussel
  • The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada offers a brief video regarding privacy and social networking that can be accessed from the Office’s social networking page.
  • What Impression Are You Making?  Take a moment to watch Ohio State University’s new short video Social Networking Dating Failure created in honor of National Data Privacy Day. See how a friendly post today can make for an awkward tomorrow.

Information

Articles

Americans Reject Tailored Advertising: Study Contradicts Claims by Marketers

Released September 30, 2009 — A consumer privacy study by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at UC Berkeley School of Law, entitled Americans Reject Tailored Advertising exploring Americans’ opinions about behavioral targeting.  Among other findings, 66 percent of adults said no to tailored ads.  When informed about specific behavioral targeting techniques that marketers employ to create the ads, (techniques including tracking behavior on websites and in retail stores), between 73 and 86 percent opposed tailored advertising. Click here for N.Y. Times coverage.

“Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?” by Daniel J. Solove, Scientific American, August 2008 in Society & Policy

“Saving Facebook” by James Grimmelmann, 94 Iowa Law Review 1137 (2009)

An Article providing the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social network sites, using Facebook as its principal example, explaining how Facebook users socialize on the site, why they misunderstand the risks involved, and how their privacy suffers as a result. Grimmelman argues that while policymakers cannot make Facebook completely safe, they can help people use it safely. Grimmelman examines the efficacy of a number of policy interventions and makes recommendations taking into consideration the social dynamics of privacy on social networking sites.

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