PrivacyCampTO

PrivacyCampTO is an unconference happening in Toronto, Canada on digital privacy in the age of social medial ubiquity. Everyone is welcome: educators, techies, policymakers, students, academics, librarians and, of course, casual users. The goal of PrivacyCampTO are is to look at privacy issues relating to everyday users and everyday situations both practically and theoretically. In other words, privacy for everyone. Many of these areas have not yet been explored, such as how gender and privacy relate, or how children understand and negotiate digital privacy. We would also like to provide background and howtos for causal users. PrivacyCampTO is the first PrivacyCamp in Canada, following the growing number of PrivacyCamps in the US (first started by PrivacyCampDC last year).

More specific things we hope to cover within that umbrella:

• Sites: Foursquare, Twitter, Facebook
• Privacy as a personal safety issue
• Specific user groups: children, youth, women, LGBTQ
• Gendered privacy issues/threats
• Privacy management strategies
• Privacy howtos (ie Facebook privacy settings explained) for casual users
• The evolution of the meaning of privacy and privacy culture
• Is privacy dead? Does it matter?
• Strategies for getting Google, Facebook et al. more involved in addressing privacy issues/concerns before they happen