Terra Incognita: 29th International Conferences of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, Montreal, 25-28 September 2007.

Thursday, Plenary 2

The Next Generation Dragon — Children’s Online Privacy
This panel challenges the assumption that young people don’t care about their online privacy. The panelists will discuss what we know about kids’ privacy attitudes and behaviours, and explore the ways in which kids actively seek to negotiate their own privacy in networked spaces.

Chair

Mr. Francesco Pizzetti
President, Italian Authority for Data Protection (Italy)

Speakers

Dr. Jacquelyn Burkell
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, University of Western Ontario (Canada)

Dr. Leslie Regan Shade
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University (Canada)

Dr. Valerie Steeves
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa (Canada)

This semester in an Issues in Information Society fourth year undergraduate class at Concordia University’s Department of Communication Studies, one of the assignments I gave students was for them to create a project detailing ‘Surveillance in Everyday Life’: “Students are asked to provide a portfolio of their everyday interactions and how they are impacted by surveillance. Be as creative as possible! This can include photo documentation, monitoring of public discourses on surveillance issues, fiction, a play, podcasting, the creation of a CDROM"...

....an entry in the blog*on*nymity On the Identity Trail