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Computers & Digital Literacy · Grade 11

Privacy, Intellectual Property and Design Ethics

Learners review the design of Spokewise, the fictional Cedar Valley bike share's new app, and a student team's study-timer app. They apply privacy by design (data minimization, purpose limitation, retention limits, protective defaults and meaningful consent), recognize and redesign deceptive design patterns, distinguish copyright, patents, trademarks and trade secrets, compare permissive and copyleft open-source licenses as concepts, and reason through design decisions with stakeholders, consequences and rights. All legal content is general information, not legal advice.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 minutes
  • Check what you learned: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Apply privacy by design to a product: collect only needed data, use it only for stated purposes, limit retention, choose protective defaults and make consent specific, freely given and easy to withdraw.
  • Recognize deceptive design patterns such as hidden costs, confirm-shaming, hard-to-cancel flows, pre-selected options, false urgency, nagging and trick questions, and propose honest redesigns.
  • Distinguish copyright, patents, trademarks and trade secrets at a general level, and explain permissive and copyleft open-source license families and the default when no license is given.
  • Reason about a design decision by identifying stakeholders, weighing consequences, checking rights and duties, and justifying a choice with safeguards.

Lessons

  1. Privacy by design 7 steps4 practiceabout 27 min
  2. Deceptive design patterns 6 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  3. Intellectual property and open source 7 steps4 practiceabout 27 min
  4. Ethical reasoning about design decisions 6 steps3 practiceabout 26 min
  5. Check what you learned 10 questions at the end

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