This unit examines the legal, technical, and social dimensions of online privacy, identity verification, and platform harms—especially as they affect children, teens, and civic discourse. Students will investigate encryption and anonymity, assess verification models and AI-driven risks, and develop actionable solutions and policy recommendations that balance safety and privacy in restoration networks. It builds on foundational concepts and prepares learners to design, evaluate, and implement restorative communication and governance practices in subsequent units.
Learning Objectives
- Analyze federal and state privacy protections, encryption principles, and real-world data exposures to identify limitations and implications for youth safety and organizational communication
- Evaluate identity approaches (anonymity, pseudonymity, verified ID) and platform verification failures to recommend context-appropriate verification models that balance privacy, accountability, and user trust
- Apply evidence-based strategies to protect children, teens, and individual mental health on social media by creating a three-part family or school action plan and a set of immediate personal safeguards
- Demonstrate methods to detect and mitigate automated and coordinated harms (bots, trolls, AI-generated misinformation), and formulate targeted policy or platform reforms—including careful Section 230 considerations and fact-checking protocols—for restoration networks
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 27 Lessons
- 30 hours
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- Unit 2 — Privacy, Verification, and Safety27
- 1.1Laws Protecting Privacy20 mins
- 1.2Privacy’s Stronghold: Encryption20 mins
- 1.3Pitfalls of Anonymous Platforms20 mins
- 1.4Time for User ID Verification?20 mins
- 1.5Big Tech Gets Verification Wrong20 mins
- 1.6Reality Check—Our Data Abounds20 mins
- 1.7Putting What’s Known to Good Use20 mins
- 1.8Who Does the Verifying?20 mins
- 1.9Pseudonyms to the Rescue20 mins
- 1.10Long Live Privacy; RIP Anonymity20 mins
- 1.11Some Benefits of Social Media for Teens20 mins
- 1.12Social Media’s Harms to Kids and Teens20 mins
- 1.13Meta’s Purposeful Disregard20 mins
- 1.14It’s Not Just Meta20 mins
- 1.15Band-Aids on Gaping Wounds20 mins
- 1.16Restoration Networking Solutions to Protect Kids and Teens20 mins
- 1.17How Parents Can Protect Their Kids Right Now20 mins
- 1.18How to Protect Your Mental Health on Social Media Right Now20 mins
- 1.19AIIs Not New, But It Has Crossed the Rubicon20 mins
- 1.20AI Know-It-All: Friend or Creep?20 mins
- 1.21The AI Roadmap for Restoration Networks20 mins
- 1.22What Exactly Are Bots and Trolls?20 mins
- 1.23Restoration Networking Solutions on the Way20 mins
- 1.24Tips for Defanging: What You Can Do Right Now20 mins
- 1.25The Six-Point Action Plan for Authentic Civil Discourse20 mins
- 1.26Supporting Section 230 with Careful Reforms20 mins
- 1.27The Checkered History of Fact-Checking20 mins
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