You know, it’s quite funny that LLM learn from human writing but now human need to be careful when writing or else people will think you are LLM xD
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Btw OP, pls do let us know if you found the solution for your problem and if the teaching goes well.
I’m quite curious ^^
I dont blame people who are vigilant of it. It’s a fair worry, which is why it’s against the rules. If AI outputs are allowed to be used throughout open forums like this, it could lead to the model collapse of future AI trained on our discussions or spread and sustain AI inaccuracies and confabulations in search queries.
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Hey everyone.
Really blown away with everyone’s responses. It has been very helpful to have me consider my approach. Thanks to everybody’s responses, I now have some resources to work with, and build my curriculum when the time comes.
I especially want to thank fellow academic @anon43483834; your input on the philosophy of privacy as a human right, and the origins of human rights, is very helpful. It helps me organize the foundational concepts I have to teach first.
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This.
Teens aren’t dealing with, or likely care as much about, abstract level threats like surveillance capitalism. Start with real examples of privacy failures that result of things that affect their lives or they are aware of. Getting swatted on Twitch, getting doxxed on social media, stalkers and creeps.
These are basic examples, but you can explain fundamentals of privacy through them. Then you can add legos on top. Compare stalkers to corporations tracking you and selling your data. Or skip that and find a hop towards democracy.
But also don’t make them feel powerless, say there are solutions, they can iterate, and things like Privacy Guides was made to help out. But maybe it’s a bit too on the nose for a class setting about democracy. If they ask I suppose pointing to resources is good to have on hand.
Most importantly, privacy works best when we all care about it, which I’d argue is the home run point. The network effect of using privacy respecting services cannot be understated.
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Would you consider opening some of thr materials under CC?
I also want to build up an open cirriculum in a way that can cater to different target groups. In my case, I’d like to provide resources for parents in my community. This is one of my strategies to not only help parents/their kids I know and care about, but reaching a better policies through consensus on privacy at school for my own kids. If parents and caregivers all get to the same page on the dangers and understand the solution space to support our kids, or as big tech would call them, the next generation of “users", we can hopefully see a generation that understands the imperative to break the cycle of apathy towards privacy. Millennials are currently the last generation to know what online privacy by default feels like and that is sad. I want my kids to feel like Privacy isn’t a pervasive chore but something they have a clear model of.
You need to give them specific real life scenarios they can identify with. Avoid topics that seem too theoretical. The Electronic Freedom Foundation ( Why Communication Metadata Matters ) has some great examples of how metadata can be abused even if the content of their communications is encrypted:
Let’s take a look at how revealing metadata can actually be to the governments and companies that collect it. A telecommunications company may know:
You called the suicide prevention hotline from the Golden Gate Bridge.
You got an email from an HIV testing service, then called your doctor, then visited an HIV support group website in the same hour.
You received an email from a digital rights activist group with the subject line “Tell Congress: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won’t Help Kids” and then called your elected representative immediately after.
You called a gynecologist, spoke for a half hour, and then called the local abortion clinic’s number later that day.
Aside from Snowden, what personally influenced me when I was younger was the mandatory read 1984 by Orwell. I think this book depicts pretty well what are the risks if you take your rights for granted and don’t protest as you mentioned they don’t.
At a certain point, it is too late to protest and all your rights will be taken one by one.
I would consider it. It would take time for me to compile. But this threat has been a good start.