privacy

Submitted by Sarah Hartman-Caverly on December 20th, 2023
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The Hidden Layer Workshop introduces key generative AI (genAI) concepts through a privacy lens. Participants probe the possibilities and limitations of genAI while considering implications for intellectual privacy, intellectual property, data sovereignty, and human agency. In the centerpiece activity, participants engage in a hidden layer simulation to develop a conceptual understanding of the algorithms in the neural networks underlying LLMs and their implications for machine bias and AI hallucination. Drawing on Richards’s theory of intellectual privacy (2015) and the movement for data sovereignty, and introducing an original framework for the ethical evaluation of AI, Hidden Layer prepares participants to be critical users of genAI and synthetic media.

The workshop is designed for a 60-minute session, but can be extended to fill the time available.
Includes workshop guide, presentation slides, learning activities, and assessment instrument.

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Facilitator learning objectives

During this workshop, participants will

  • Apply prompt engineering techniques to elicit information from text-to-text generative AI (genAI) platforms

  • Appreciate a range of intellectual privacy implications posed by genAI, including: 

    • personal data;

    • intellectual property (copyright, patent, proprietary and sensitive data); 

    • AI alignment (social bias, content moderation, AI guardrails, censorship, prompt injection); 

    • synthetic media;

    • AI hallucination and mis/dis/malinformation; and

    • data sovereignty and data colonialism.

  • Engage in a simulation to develop a conceptual understanding of how the hidden layer in the neural networks underpinning large language models works

  • Synthesize their knowledge of genAI intellectual privacy considerations to analyze an ethical case study using the Agent-Impact Matrix for Artificial Intelligence (AIM4AI).

Participant learning outcomes

During this workshop, participants will

  • Interact with genAI to explore its possibilities and limitations

  • Discuss the intellectual privacy implications of genAI, including intellectual property considerations

  • Evaluate the ethics of genAI for its impact on human agency

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Suggested Citation: 
Hartman-Caverly, Sarah. "Hidden Layer: Intellectual Privacy and Generative AI." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2023. https://projectcora.org/assignment/hidden-layer-intellectual-privacy-and-generative-ai.
Submitted by Sarah Hartman-Caverly on August 4th, 2023
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This workshop engages participants in exploring corporate data collection, personal profiling, deceptive design, and data brokerage practices. Workshop content is contextualized with the theoretical frameworks of panoptic sort (Gandy), surveillance capitalism (Zuboff), and the four regulators (Lessig) and presented through a privacy and business ethics lens. Participants will learn how companies make money from data collection practices; explore how interface design can influence our choices and behaviors; and discuss business ethics regarding privacy and big data.
The workshop is designed for 75-minute class sessions, but can be compressed into 60-minute sessions.
Includes workshop guide, presentation slides, learning activities, and assessment instrument.

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  1. Learn how companies make money from data collection practices
  2. Explore how interface design can influence our choices and behaviors
  3. Discuss business ethics regarding privacy and big data.

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Suggested Citation: 
Hartman-Caverly, Sarah. "Dark Patterns: Surveillance Capitalism and Business Ethics." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2023. https://projectcora.org/assignment/dark-patterns-surveillance-capitalism-and-business-ethics.
Submitted by Sarah Hartman-Caverly on August 4th, 2023
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This sex-positive privacy literacy workshop engages participants in exploring how sex tech impacts intimate privacy and intimate relationships. Workshop content is contextualized with the theoretical frameworks of artificial intimacies (Brooks) and consentful tech (The Consentful Tech Project) and the concept of intimate privacy (Citron) and presented through a privacy literacy lens. Participants will identify artificial intimacies in order to assess real-world examples and their impact upon intimate privacy; evaluate the privacy of digital bodies under conditions of data promiscuity using a consentful tech framework; and understand intimate privacy and the impact of technology on intimate relationships and wellbeing.

The workshop is designed for a 60-minute session, but can be extended to fill the time available.
Includes workshop guide, presentation slides, learning activities, inclusive pedagogy tool, and assessment instrument.

Learning Outcomes: 
  1. Identify artificial intimacies in order to assess real-world examples and their impact upon intimate privacy
  2. Evaluate the privacy of digital bodies under conditions of data promiscuity using a consentful tech framework
  3. Understand intimate privacy and the impact of technology on intimate relationships and wellbeing.

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Suggested Citation: 
Hartman-Caverly, Sarah. "Private Bits: Privacy, Intimacy, and Consent." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2023. https://projectcora.org/assignment/private-bits-privacy-intimacy-and-consent.
Submitted by Alexandria Chisholm on October 14th, 2021
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This algorithmic literacy workshop puts a new spin on media literacy by moving beyond fake news to examine the algorithms that shape our online experiences and how we encounter information in our everyday lives.

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By the end of the #ForYou: Algorithms & the Attention Economy workshop, students will be able to:

  1. describe recommender system algorithms in order to examine how they shape individuals' online experiences through personalization
  2. analyze their online behaviors and subsequent ad profiles in order to reflect on how they influence how individuals encounter, perceive, & evaluate information, leading to echo chambers & political polarization
  3. assess how their data is used to personalize their online experience in order to build algorithmic awareness & make informed, intentional choices about their information consumption
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Multidisciplinary

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Suggested Citation: 
Chisholm, Alexandria. "#ForYou: Algorithms & the Attention Economy." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2021. https://projectcora.org/assignment/foryou-algorithms-attention-economy.
Submitted by Alexandria Chisholm on October 16th, 2020
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The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future.  The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership explores future implications of past and current digital behaviors; Digital Shred provides tools to evaluate and mitigate the damage of past digital behaviors; and Digital Wellness focuses on privacy across the lifespan - bringing together the past, present, & future by finding a balance of technology & wellness, while aligning habits and goals.  Each workshop is grounded in theory – countering approaches that overpromise user control in the face of information asymmetries and the control paradox – and embrace students’ autonomy and agency by avoiding prescribed solutions, and instead encouraging decision-making frameworks.

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In the Digital Leadership Workshop, students will be able to:

  1. recognize that online behavior is persistent and there is no guarantee that it will remain private (despite privacy settings)
  2. anticipate how perceptions of their online behavior can impact their personal and professional opportunities and make informed, intentional decisions regarding their activity
  3. align their online activity within the context of their future profession
  4. model constructive online behaviors as student leaders and future professionals
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Multidisciplinary

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Suggested Citation: 
Chisholm, Alexandria. "Digital Leadership Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/digital-leadership-workshop.
Submitted by Alexandria Chisholm on March 23rd, 2020
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The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future.  The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership explores future implications of past and current digital behaviors; Digital Shred provides tools to evaluate and mitigate the damage of past digital behaviors; and Digital Wellness focuses on privacy across the lifespan - bringing together the past, present, & future by finding a balance of technology & wellness, while aligning habits and goals.  Each workshop is grounded in theory – countering approaches that overpromise user control in the face of information asymmetries and the control paradox – and embrace students’ autonomy and agency by avoiding prescribed solutions, and instead encouraging decision-making frameworks.

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In the Digital Wellness Workshop, students will be able to:

  1. evaluate & articulate their digital wellness priorities
  2. recognize that their relationship with technology can have real world impact on their personal wellbeing, including relationships, mental health, & professional aspirations
  3. align their online activity & habits within the context of their wellness goals
  4. model constructive online and offline behaviors as individuals, student leaders, and future professionals
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Multidisciplinary

Information Literacy concepts:

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Suggested Citation: 
Chisholm, Alexandria. "Digital Wellness Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/digital-wellness-workshop.
Submitted by Alexandria Chisholm on March 23rd, 2020
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Short Description: 

The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future.  The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership explores future implications of past and current digital behaviors; Digital Shred provides tools to evaluate and mitigate the damage of past digital behaviors; and Digital Wellness focuses on privacy across the lifespan - bringing together the past, present, & future by finding a balance of technology & wellness, while aligning habits and goals.  Each workshop is grounded in theory – countering approaches that overpromise user control in the face of information asymmetries and the control paradox – and embrace students’ autonomy and agency by avoiding prescribed solutions, and instead encouraging decision-making frameworks.

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In the Digital Shred Workshop, students will be able to:

  1. Reflect on and describe their digital privacy priorities in order to articulate the benefits and risks of their digital dossier
  2. Apply a growth mindset to critically examine their current data exhaust // digital footprint and recognize when change is needed
  3. Develop a Personal Data Integrity Plan that makes routine the process of auditing and updating their digital dossier in alignment with their privacy values
  4. Describe “digital shred” and its importance.
Discipline: 
Multidisciplinary

Information Literacy concepts:

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Suggested Citation: 
Chisholm, Alexandria. "Digital Shred Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/digital-shred-workshop.
Submitted by Alexandria Chisholm on December 6th, 2018
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This workshop delivers an action-oriented introduction to personal data privacy designed for new college students. The session is designed to reveal the systems in place to collect and analyze online behavioral data, and to unveil the real-world consequences of online profiling in contexts like sentiment shaping, consumer preferences, employment, healthcare, personal finance, and law enforcement. In lieu of a prescriptive approach, students analyze case studies to observe how online behaviors impact real-world opportunities and reflect on the benefits and risks of technology use to develop purposeful online behaviors and habits that align with their individual values. Developing knowledge practices regarding privacy and the commodification of personal information and embodying the core library values of privacy and intellectual freedom, the workshop promotes a proactive rather than reactive approach and presents a spectrum of privacy preferences across a range of contexts in order to respect students’ autonomy and agency in personal technology use.

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Students will be able to: 1. recognize how their personal data and metadata are collected, along with the potential implications of such data collection 2. assess how their data is shared and make informed, intentional choices to safeguard their privacy 3. identify privacy issues facing our society 4. describe the positive case for privacy as a human right fundamental to individual well-being

Discipline: 
Multidisciplinary

Information Literacy concepts:

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Suggested Citation: 
Chisholm, Alexandria. "Privacy Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2018. https://projectcora.org/assignment/privacy-workshop.