Choose Privacy Week 2024

Libraries care about your privacy! The American Library Association created Choose Privacy Week to start a national conversation about digital privacy and safety, offering tools and resources to think critically and make more informed choices about personal online privacy and safety. The week of May 6th, UW Libraries' Open Scholarship Commons will offer  sessions designed to help students, faculty, staff and the community at large develop a better understanding of assessing your own digital safety, including simple changes you can make to safeguard your privacy on your phone along with a workshop on navigating the legalease of Terms of Service agreements followed by a hack-a-thon to examine and rate terms of service and privacy policies of online tools commonly used for research and in classroom settings. See more details on each of these workshops and join us for Choose Privacy Week!

Program Information:

Reading the Fine Print: a Workshop + Hack-a-thon on Privacy and Terms of Service for Common Research and Classroom Tools

Monday, May 6th, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Hybrid

Sign Up to Attend in the Open Scholarship Commons

Sign Up to Attend Online

Do you click accept without fully reading the terms of service for research or classroom tools? Have you tried to understand the privacy policies of tools you use for research/courses but get lost in the legalese? If so, this workshop is for you! Designed for students, instructors, and researchers alike, this online workshop will help you navigate common language used in Terms of Service and Privacy Policies and will offer Terms of Service; Didn’t Read as a framework for reviewing agreements. The workshop will end by applying your new-found knowledge in a Terms of Service Hack-a-thon, examining and rating commonly used tools in research and coursework. Help us uncover which tools make the grade with privacy-friendly Terms of Service!

Privacy on Your Phone

Wednesday, May 8th, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Online | Sign Up

You live a lot of your life online, both personally and as a student. And that means there’s a lot of your personal data available to be found. This one-hour online workshop will offer some tools for assessing your level of risk and resources for plugging the leaks, on your computer and your phone. Among other issues, we’ll look at how to “harden” your browser, how to limit the visibility of online searches, why 2- and multi-factor authentication is worth the bother, and how to make your scholarly tools (e.g., shared docs & citation managers) be less leaky. A resource sheet will be provided.

Privacy with Cookies Drop In Session

Thursday, May 9th, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Open Scholarship Commons, Presentation Space| Drop In!

Interested in practical steps to protect your privacy? Drop by the Open Scholarship Commons anytime between 11am and 12pm to participate in activities like creating your own secure password or grab one of our privacy checklists to work through with us or to take and work on later. Participants will be rewarded with cookies (real ones, not the tracking kind) while supplies last!

Privacy, AI, and the Law:  A Conversation About the Porous Boundaries Between Your Life and Technology

Thursday, May 9th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Online| Sign Up

Join the Open Scholarship Commons in welcoming UW scholars Kentrell Owens & Inyoung Cheong for a wide-ranging discussion about the many overlaps between personal privacy, algorithms, and the evolving legal frameworks they operate within.  Mr. Owens is a PhD candidate in UW's Security & Privacy Research Lab whose research focuses on computer security and privacy for underserved communities.  Ms. Cheong, also a PhD candidate in the Security & Privacy Research Lab, conducts multi-disciplinary research on AI safety, alignment, and regulatory principles, having served in both the South Korean government and the United Nations.

Automated captioning will be provided for all online large-group sessions. The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@u.washington.edu.