For this assignment, I was in a group with Michael and Agia. We were tasked with discussing how the issue of privacy has impacted digital technologies. Michael is discussing control of data, and services we select and how that affects student privacy. Agia is discussing Zooming, and policy supporting privacy. I will be discussing privacy training and privacy breaches.
Privacy training is something in which I have personal experience. Users must be educated to protect themselves from threats (Kalloniatis, 2021). Many social media sites will walk you through their privacy settings, so you know how to protect your information. Some people must protect other people’s data, such as in the fields of healthcare and elections. At my place of work, we must undergo confidential information management training, and we have to recertify regularly through an online module. Gamification is one way that has been suggested to make privacy training more engaging (Kalloniatis, 2021). I think this is true if solid instructional design principles are still used.
Privacy breaches are something no one wants to handle, and “certain characteristics of SNS open up possibilities for new kinds of privacy breaches. These breaches primarily result from the fact that users reveal detailed information to the public and map their real-life social relationships more explicitly than they would in emails or on public forums” (Gurses et al., 2008). First, users must learn to protect their data. Social media sites like Facebook offer different privacy settings to decide how much information to share publicly. However, what happens when accounts are hacked? There are services that will help you if you happen to experience online identity theft, and in some cases a hacked account will just be dealt with by changing a password. Users have to accept that anything they put online could be compromised and they should manage their online identity with that in mind.
References
Gurses, S., Rizk, R., & Gunther, O. (2008). Privacy Design in Online Social Networks: Learning from Privacy Breaches and Community Feedback. 11.
Kalloniatis, C. (2021). The Role of Gamification in Software Development Lifecycle. BoD – Books on Demand.
I really like the approach you and your classmates took for the assignment with breaking it out between yourselves. You had some very poignant ideas when it comes to privacy using social media. You used the acronym SNS, am I right in assuming this stands for Social Networking Sites? That is how I interpreted it, but as I finished I started questioning myself.
Hi Rebecca, yes that is what it stands for.
We found that breaking it up between us worked quite well.