Privacy Spectrum: Is This Creepy?

📋 Activity Instructions:

Choose your mode: Classroom voting or Individual reflection
Read each scenario carefully and consider your gut reaction
Vote on the spectrum: From "Helpful" to "Creepy/Invasive"
See class results and discuss different perspectives
Discover context that might change your opinion
Reflect: What makes something feel supportive vs. surveillant?

Welcome to the Privacy Spectrum Activity

You'll evaluate 10 real-world learning analytics scenarios and decide where they fall on the spectrum from helpful to invasive. There are no right answers - this activity is designed to surface diverse perspectives and spark meaningful discussion about privacy, consent, and ethics in educational technology.

📈 Activity Summary & Key Insights

Most Controversial

Most Agreed Upon

Scenarios Evaluated

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🎯 Key Takeaways:

Context is everything: The same data collection can be supportive or surveillant depending on its use and purpose
Privacy is relational: It's not about hiding information, but about appropriate use within specific contexts
No universal standards: People have legitimately different comfort levels and priorities around data and privacy
Purpose limitation matters: Data collected for one purpose shouldn't automatically be repurposed
Power dynamics shift ethics: Student "consent" in an institutional context is complicated by power imbalances
Transparency ≠ Permission: Knowing you're being tracked doesn't make the tracking ethical

🔒 The Privacy Spectrum