January Week 3 Activity – The ACTiZENS' Club Programme by Desh Apnayen

Policy Formulation – Instant Messenger Privacy Policy

Type of Activity – Online/In-Classroom Activity

Introduction

Recently, WhatsApp updated its privacy policy which caused a great commotion amongst the users and led to a severe backlash. Since then, WhatsApp has been trying to remedy the situation by giving full-page advertainments to explain the reasons for the change in policy. In today’s lesson, the students will learn about these privacy updates and will be able to compare it to other instant messengers, such as Signal and Telegram. They will also be accountable to share their learnings with other civilians.

Expected Outcomes

Students will become aware of the change in WhatsApp’s privacy policy and will be able to analyse the pros and cons of it.
Students will be able to compare and contrast between different instant messenger platforms’ policies.
Students will bring about awareness of this change amongst their family and friends by taking a survey.

Teachers’ Section

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Students’ Section

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