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Thinking about digital privacy, including the rewards and risks of convenience

Claire Lobdell

This is designed as a 75 minute lesson plan. It isn’t tied to specific course content, but can be tailored to a particular course and scaled to shorter or longer class sessions. It is designed as more of a theoretical, reflective introduction to concepts of privacy and security than as a nuts-and-bolts or tech heavy workshop, and it includes a debate activity entitled “The Rewards and Risks of Convenience.” It could also be used as part 1 in a two-part workshop series in which the second focuses more on specific strategies/methods/software.

Lobdell, C. (2019). Thinking about digital privacy, including the rewards and risks of convenience [Lesson Plan]. ACRL Sandbox. https://sandbox.acrl.org/library-collection/thinking-about-digital-privacy-including-rewards-and-risks-convenience

Contributor: Chelcie Juliet Rowell, Harvard University Library; co-convener of the ACRL Privacy Literacy Discussion Group and co-principal investigator of the National Forum on the Prevention of Cyber Sexual Abuse.

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