🎯 Learning Intention

I will explore real-world cases that shaped digital privacy and understand how court decisions changed the way websites and companies must handle user data.

✅ Success Criteria

I can summarize at least one major digital law case, explain the issue at the center of the case, and describe how it affects web developers today.

🧠 Warm-Up — Tech Journal Prompt

Write 4–5 sentences:

What would worry you more:

a company collecting too much data,

or a company losing your data?

Why?

📚 Vocabulary

Precedent — A court decision that becomes a rule future cases must follow.

Consent Notice — A message that explains what data a site collects and why.

Data Retention — How long a company stores information before deleting it.

📣 Mini-Lecture — “Cases That Changed the Internet”

Short, story-based walk-through of 2–3 important cases (you choose which ones to highlight).

Examples you can use:

• Carpenter v. United States (2018) — Phone location data needs a warrant.
• Facebook v. Belgian DPA (2021) — Cookies + tracking require consent.
• TikTok Settlement (2021) — Violations of children’s online privacy laws.