Privacy Grade Rubric

1. Review the privacy policies and the personal account settings for five online services that you use every day. These can be howdy.tamu.edu, library.tamu.edu, an online bank account, Facebook, iTunes, and Google Blogger. Record from the privacy policies exactly which information the service claims to own and reserves the right to use.
(40 points)

__Records the information the service claims to own and reserves the right to use for all 5 online services.
(40 points)
__ Records the information the service claims to own and reserves the right to use for 3 online services.
(20 points)
__Records the information the service claims to own and reserves the right to use for less than 3 online services or not at all.
(0 points)

2. For each of your five services, review the privacy settings you are using. Record whether or not you are using “default” or custom settings for each service. If you are using a “default” setting, note which data you are offering the service company. If you are using a “custom” setting, note which data you are withholding from the service company.
(40 points)

__Reviews the privacy settings for all 5 online services that you are using, records whether or not you are using “default” or custom settings for each service, and records which data you are offering if you use the “default” settings or the information you are withholding is you use custom settings.
(40 points)
__Reviews the privacy settings for 3 online services that you are using, records whether or not you are using “default” or custom settings for each service, and records which data you are offering if you use the “default” settings or the information you are withholding is you use custom settings.
(20 points)
__Reviews the privacy settings for less than 3 online services that you are using, records whether or not you are using “default” or custom settings for each service, and records which data you are offering if you use the “default” settings or the information you are withholding is you use custom settings or not at all.
(0 points)

3. Post your findings to your personal class blog.
(20 points)

__ Report is published to blog by June 7 at 12:30 pm.
(20 points)
__ Report is published after June 7 at 12:30 pm.
(0 points)