A Virtual Environment for Teaching Technical Aspects of Privacy
Svetlana Peltsverger, Guangzhi Zheng · 2013
Most of Information Technology and Information Systems courses teach students about possible invasion of privacy as a result of poor information system security, not about privacy as an essential principle in information systems. Moreover, students must know not only policy and compliance aspects of privacy, but also technical safeguards, so they can develop or configure systems to avoid privacy violations. Laboratory exercises are crucial in understanding technical aspects of privacy. This paper describes a virtual environment we have developed for "hands-on" laboratory exercises that allow students to recognize what happens "behind the scene" when they interact with information systems. Two example modules are developed and presented.