Exploring Context for Privacy Protection in North American Higher Education and Beyond
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2020-01
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Undergraduate students in North American post-secondary institutions are subject to a wide range of data collection. It includes data generated in the course of teaching and learning, but also can include a wide range of other aspects of modern life, such as closed-circuit security cameras, internet and wireless network use, and what students buy and consume. This makes the post-secondary institution an ideal model for understanding the privacy impact of modern and future technologies, as a single organization which collects and potentially uses wide-ranging amounts and kinds of data about our daily lives. This thesis proposes a framework which separates context into three interrelated layers so that systems can be designed which more fully protect the privacy of individuals, examines the ways in which we collect and use data about undergraduate students, and makes a quantitative study of undergraduate privacy behaviours and attitudes. Thus we present the case that context is a core concept for privacy protections which better protect undergraduate students and their privacy.
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privacy, higher education
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Wu, L. (2020). Exploring Context for Privacy Protection in North American Higher Education and Beyond (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.