Privacy Literacy:
Approaches and Content in Universities and their Libraries Around the World
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rib.v47n3e357426Keywords:
privacy literacy, privacy, librarian, university library, surveillanceAbstract
Amidst the scenario of digital surveillance and the treatment of personal data as a commodity, it is essential to raise issues related to the individuals' privacy, being a librarian's attribution to develop Privacy Literacy in academic environments. The general objective of the research is to present a panorama of content on Privacy Literacy developed from a sample of universities around the world, using the bibliographic and documental methods. From the bibliographic research it was found the discussion and orientation of library institutions regarding Privacy Literacy. In the documentary research with a sample of the 10 best positioned universities from each continent, 66 contents related to Privacy Literacy were identified, presenting the continent of Africa as the most representative in the content offerings. In the categorization of the contents it was identified that "Critical Thinking" is more present in the approaches, while only 5 of the total contents had the three categories, “Critical Thinking”, “Technosolutionist” and “Legislative”, in their approaches. It is suggested for future work the development of practices in Privacy Literacy applied in university libraries addressing the three topics, and the search for partnerships with areas that address the topic in the institutions themselves.
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