HCI_Data and Privacy

Privacy Activity
Data is everywhere. You are ‘giving off data’ and providing data to others all the time. Sometimes this data can
be directly linked to you as an individual; sometimes not.

A. A boss sees an employee who called in “sick” in a picture that someone posted on Facebook. In this
picture the employee is partying the night before. The boss fires the employee.
B. A company who has contracts with the Federal Government doesn’t want to hire you because a
Facebook friend leaves lots of enthusiastic “legalize marijuana” postings on your wall.
C. A teacher is fired because there’s a picture of this teacher holding alcoholic drinks on her MySpace page.
D. Someone’s Netflix rental history is being used as evidence in a murder case because this person rented a
lot of horror movies.
E. An 18 year old boy is charged with distributing child pornography when he uses his cell phone to send
naked images of his 17 year old ex-girlfriend to his friends.