The Cost of Free - Data Collection

Purpose: Students will be able to explain the tradeoffs between maintaining personal privacy and using innovative software free of cost.

Vocabulary:
Cookies (In our browsers keep a record of our movements on that particular website).

Journal: The Value of Privacy?

• State: Every time we interact with our phones and the internet, Eg. purchases online, online games, seeking directions, etc. etc., our actions are continually being tracked. Cookies in our browsers keep a record of our movements on the Internet and then are retrieved by commercial or government interests.
• Question: 1. Is it possible to maintain  our privacy in a digitized world? 2. Do you care? Explain.

Video: “The Future Of Big Data.”