Chapter 1 - Assignment (All About Data)
Provide a thoughtful 250+ word response to all of the questions below (250 words total, not for each section). Please separate your answers by the parts of the question. It makes it easier to see your specific response to each part.
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ALL ABOUT DATA
Have you thought about all the data companies have about you? Think about the websites your visit, your apps, your email, etc. That's a lot! Let's start off the class looking at your data.
Step 1: Watch these videos about data collection
Step 2: Next, check out the "Smartphone Sixty Seconds - Learn more about Cambridge Analytica" on page 15 in your text and answer the questions.
Step 3: Privacy and the Right to Be Forgotten. Page 18 in your text provides some resources to have your information forgotten in search engines. Page 19 brings up the idea that if we have nothing to hide, does it really matter. Referring to these call outs in your text, please answer the questions below.
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT:
From step 1:
- Were you aware of how Facebook (now Meta) collects data? If so, how did you become aware of this? If not, why do you think you didn't know?
- What are the pros of this data collection for both marketers and consumers?
- What the cons of this data collection for both markers and consumers?
From step 2:
- Whom did the scandal impact (what stakeholders)?
- How did it impact them?
From step 3:
- Do you think that you'll complete the process to have your information forgotten in search engines? Why or why not?
- What do you think about the process of having to complete a form to have your information forgotten in search engines?
- How do you feel about the idea that if we have nothing to hide, does it really matter who has our data?
- How can we individually protect our own privacy?
- What role do governments have in privacy protection?
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