Week 14: Privacy vs Security

This week moves from cryptographic mechanisms to the policy questions those mechanisms create.

Garden State Cyber I asks students to distinguish privacy from security, study a teacher-provided encrypted-device case, and debate whether government should have lawful access to encrypted messages or devices.

This week

Lesson 1: Privacy and Security Are Not Opposites

Separate privacy from confidentiality, identify stakeholders, map data practices, and redesign a fictional system to preserve its benefit while reducing unnecessary privacy cost.

Lesson 2: Case Study: Lawful Access to an Encrypted Device

Use only the assigned case packet to separate facts, technical architecture, policy claims, strongest arguments, risk transfer, and unresolved questions.

Lesson 3: Debate Lab: Should Government Have Lawful Access to Encrypted Devices?

Prepare both sides, use claim-evidence-reasoning cards, conduct technical and policy cross-examination, and write an individual post-debate position memo.

What you will produce

• stakeholder matrix
• privacy/security trade-off map
• neutral case brief
• strongest-argument cards
• debate evidence cards
• observer scorecard
• post-debate position memo

The standard is:

Represent the opposing position fairly, separate technical claims from policy values, and state which risk your preferred policy still accepts.