ALA Launches Choose Privacy Week

While students may have an innate ability to go online and navigate the Internet —understanding the ramifications of putting their personal details on the Web may not be as clear.

Enter Choose Privacy Week, an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) that launches today to educate and raise awareness of how to protect information in a digital age.

“The point of Choose Privacy is to spark a nationwide dialogue of what privacy means to us, and what the privacy laws are today in the digital space,” says Angela Maycock, assistant director for ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.

For children, protecting those rights is even more critical as young students often aren’t sophisticated enough to grasp what is appropriate behavior on the Web. School librarians can play a crucial role in helping to steer children towards tools they can use to protect themselves, say experts.