🎯 Learning Intention

I will apply digital security and privacy laws to real or realistic scenarios and make decisions about what an ethical developer should do.

✅ Success Criteria

I can analyze a case study, name at least one law or ethical principle involved, and recommend a responsible action a developer or company should take.

🌍 Why Are We Learning This?

Laws are written in legal language. You will see them in real life as messy situations: a rushed feature, a leaked database, a sketchy login page, a “harmless” tracking script. Practicing with case studies trains you to recognize red flags before someone gets hurt.

🧠 Warm-Up — Tech Journal Prompt

Write 4–5 sentences:

Imagine you’re a junior web developer and your manager asks you to add a feature that tracks users in a way you feel is shady, but “not technically illegal.”

• What are your options?
• What might you risk if you say nothing?

📚 Vocabulary

Add or revisit:

• Compliance – Following the rules and requirements of laws or regulations.
• Liability – Legal responsibility for something that goes wrong.
• Whistleblowing – Reporting unethical or illegal behavior inside an organization.

📣 Formative Lecture & Discussion (Mini)

Guide the room through one whole-class case study: