|Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute||Home| Students are taught
how to evaluate privacy policies to make informed decisions as
to whether they would like to do business with a particular Web
site. Students learn how cookies track their browsing activities
to create online profiles. They also learn how to delete cookies
and change their computer settings to reject or accept cookies.
Students learn about privacy advocate organizations and the
concerns they have for protecting online personal-information
privacy by calling for legislative regulation of e-commerce.
Students learn what legislation has been passed to protect our
privacy based on ever-changing interpretations of the Fourth
Amendment to the Constitution because of societal and
technological changes. Students assess the government's
hesitancy to regulate e-commerce. The unit is designed for high
school students in the following classes: (Recommended for
Computer Literacy, History, Law, English, and Computer
Applications, grades 10-12.)