Goldfish in a bowl: Teaching privacy literacy to undergraduates

Abstract

Free coffee in exchange for your personal data. Wifi that tracks your movements across campus. Apps that mine data across your device. For college students today, giving up personal data is simply the cost of being online, both for personal and educational purposes. And while students may care about maintaining their online privacy, many do not have the tools to practice good data privacy habits, because they simply have not been taught them. In this presentation, we will explore what privacy literacy is, why librarians are perfectly poised to offer data privacy instruction, and look at examples of data privacy lessons that the presenter has used in their own credit-bearing information literacy course.