Privacy check
Tue, Apr 27, 2027 · Week 15 · Biotechnology for Health (Biomedical Innovations)
Today's goal: Review your public health product for privacy and data-protection concerns.
This is a model of the work you should turn in today. Use it to check your own: match the structure and the level of detail, do not copy it. Your data and wording should be your own.
Data my product collects or displays:
- Visitor name and phone number (sign-up form)
- Child's age
- Home ZIP code
- Date of clinic visit
Identifiable items flagged: Name and phone number can identify a specific person, so they are the highest risk. ZIP plus exact date could also single someone out in a small area.
Reduce the risk:
- Remove names from any public summary; replace with a count ('42 children vaccinated this week').
- Report ZIP only at the neighborhood level, not paired with a single visit date.
- Keep phone numbers only for reminder texts, never displayed.
Access rules: Only the clinic nurse and the program coordinator should see names and phone numbers. The public dashboard shows only aggregated counts.
Privacy statement (4 sentences): We collect your name and phone number only to send you a vaccine reminder. We never display your personal information publicly. Public numbers are totals only, with no way to identify any individual. You may ask us to delete your information at any time.
This model shows the level of evidence and organization needed to complete: Completes the privacy-review step of the public health product: a list of collected data, identifiable items flagged for de-identification, access rules, and a short privacy statement.
- Date and label the entry.
- Record the procedure, observation, or design decision clearly.
- End with what the evidence means and the next step.
Keep the structure. Replace the question, facts, measurements, and evidence. Then recheck units, vocabulary, and whether the conclusion goes beyond the evidence.
Also due today: Submit your privacy audit and statement on Schoology today.
Turn in: Privacy audit and statement
Go to Schoology to turn this in.
Submit one PDF. Put your first and last name in the document header. Name the file: FirstName LastName - Assignment Title - YYYY-MM-DD.pdf.
Open Schoology PDF upload helpIf you cannot get in, see Mr. Mendoza. Do not skip the work.
Claim ceiling: Today's evidence supports a classroom claim about privacy check. It cannot prove causation, diagnose a real patient, or justify action outside this room.
One exam-style question that uses exactly what you practiced today. Try it before you reveal the answer, then read why each choice is right or wrong.
Tap an answer to see the full explanation. Nothing is recorded or graded.
It builds this reusable test skill: De-identifying and aggregating individually identifiable health data.
- Name the concept or data pattern being tested.
- Cross out choices that violate that rule or the evidence.
- Justify the best remaining choice before checking the answer.