Privacy and you…

1. Big Brother is watching Privacy and you…

2. Questions to Consider • 1. Would you ever consider letting a TV crew come into your life to document everything? Why or why not? • Big Brother, Kardashians, The Real World, • These shows film everything from births, addiction, divorce, plastic surgery, etc. • How – if at all - do these shows feed our desire for news / entertainment? • Where do / would you draw the line regarding your privacy?

3. Privacy ORWELL’S 1984 Today FBI surveillance Corporations collect data, Internet privacy issues Drug testing at the workplace or school Employer’s monitoring employees’ emails, phone calls, or facial expressions & voice intonations Spies • Telescreens are everywhere, except where the Proles (lower class) live & work • Workplace monitoring – you can’t look at a note or document for too long • Thought Police interpret people’s actions & ideas • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4rBDUJTnNU 1984 movie trailor 2. How have ideas about privacy changed over time?

4. Questions Continued • 3. In your opinion, what is the most ethically concerning privacy-related issue in today’s society? Pick one & explain why • Optional issues to consider: • Stalker websites • Cookies on websites • Racial profiling • Search & seizure • Identity theft

5. Spy vs. Spy • 4. Rate your support for the following 10 actions on a scale of 1 – 5 (1 meaning ‘completely unacceptable’ & 5 meaning ‘more than acceptable’) • A. A storewide security camera videotapes you shopping • B. You must walk through a metal detector to enter a court house • C. Your luggage is scanned using X-ray equipment before you board a plane • D. Secret, hidden cameras record your actions in public spaces, including traffic intersections & public parks

6. Rating continued • E. A telephone trace provides information about your location to a 911 operator in an emergency • F. An ID badge that you swipe informs your school as to when you enter/leave campus • G. An ID card carried on your body allows medical personnel to access your medical records • H. A microchip implanted under your skin allows your school to track your movements • I. Microchips implanted under former prison inmates’ skins allows parole officers to monitor their actions

7. Video Clips • 5. Discuss this new “911” Technology • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXFTHhZoa04 • 6. Discuss the Medical Microchip technology • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDZR-VvF204

8. Questions Continued • 7. Should the gov’t, schools, a hospital, or any other institution be able to collect & record electronic data on individuals without their express permission? Why or why not? Are there any exceptions? Explain. • 8. Would you support an implanted chip, ID badge or some other form of surveillance for school use? Explain. • How might these tools be designed to help students/parents/teachers/administrators? • What kinds of useful information could it be engineered to carry? • Could students modify the cards? • What responsibility – if any – do schools have if students are abducted from school property? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt9ZoA2rTSE(school tracking)