Digital Privacy Curriculum

Summary

The CyberCivics Digital Privacy curriculum was developed as a two-week (10 class meetings of 40 minutes each) program for a high school AP Government and Politics class. It provides an overview of and hands-on activities with several computing technologies that may be used in ways that threaten privacy rights, including keyloggers, radio frequency identification (RFID), databases and data mining, and wireless fidelity (WiFi) networks.

The Digital Privacy curriculum kicks off with a field trip to a well-equipped computer lab, where students can participate in a variety of activities that illustrate how vulnerable some computing activities are to spoofing, eavesdropping, or manipulation. These activities set the stage for the follow-on activities, which can normally be supported in a high school classroom without specialized equipment beyond a small wireless router and a small number of laptop computers.