Tuesday, May 6, 2008
14 Girls and 4 Boys (AGES 13 – 17)

1. What is important to you personally about privacy?
· Having people’s respect
· Being able to do what you want without question

2. What information about yourself are you comfortable in giving out?
· Anything but Social Security Number
· Comfortable giving first name; not last
· Gender
· Age Birthday

3. Where do you draw the line and say “That’s none of your business!”
· Address
· Phone number
· Passwords
· Credit card number
· Depends on situation
· Marital status
· Religion
· Sexual preference

4. What do you think of when I ask you about confidentiality (privacy)?
· Degree of trust (teacher/student)
· Between you and me
· Lock and key
· Secrets
· Wire tapping
· Dr.’s medical information
· PATRIOT Act
· Stalkers
· Hacking

5. What influences in our society are changing how we think about privacy?
· Media/news reporting
· Information that is supposed to be safe and is not
· Teacher/student interaction being violated, loss of trust, embarrassing and ridiculing students
· Locker checks
· Identity theft
· Threat of terrorism / bomb threats
· Government seems to have access to everything. Why? PATRIOT Act
· Social networking sites
· You have to be more aware/guarded
· A point that should exist where teacher cannot take away notes and cell phones
· Mutual erosion of trust
· Stereotyping
6. How do you feel about privacy?
· It is very important
· You want to have something to call your own
· Different for everyone – Shows maturity in individuals
· Cannot just trust must use judgment

7. What concerns do you have about privacy?
· Someone might violate it
· Later repercussions
· People who you do not see the value of privacy
· Archive.com
· Background checks
· Insurance companies finding out medical information and will not cover people

8. What types of information could hurt a person if made public?
· Health information
· Your sexuality
· Gossip – information ca be posted by other
· Criminal history
· Credit card information/identity theft
· Predators
· Drug and alcohol use
· Gang participation/group participation
· Protest/political parties
· Hobbies and interests

9. What information about others do you feel you need to know?
· Name
· Age/online
· Criminal history
· Gender/online
· Age/mistaking of who is above age
· Face-to-face
· Sexual history in a romantic relation
· Drug addict – online/face-to-face
· Each – has a different need to know

10. What decisions have you made about your privacy? Do you take any actions to protect your privacy?
· Make my online page private
· Do not give out any Ids
· Do not give out private information – address, phone, ID, Social Security, cell phone number
· Would not want to have any identifying information on clothing
· Use pop-up blocker
· Parents have talked to kids about privacy
· This issue was talked about in school

11. What trade‑offs or compromises would you be willing to make with your privacy?
· “I wouldn’t make compromisest
· Giving out limited information
· Do not compromise
· I would give information to a doctor for mental and medical reasons
· S.A.T. – Information (to provide college access)
· I look for secure sites

12. Are you surprised at any of the things you have heard today?
· Surprised about locker checks
· When teacher confiscate cell phones and look at look at history