Surveillance and Privacy: How Can the Framework Support Privacy Literacy?

Scholars have proposed a variety of ways to approach privacy literacy in the library classroom. Privacy is a core value of librarianship, but personal privacy is being eroded at a rapid rate. Students leave data tracks all over the internet; their personal information is constantly collected outside of the classroom. This alone is enough for privacy literacy to be on the librarian’s radar. Alarmingly, recent studies show that publisher platforms may be harvesting student personal information inside of the library classroom as well. This article explores current critical perspectives on privacy literacy, the urgency of privacy literacy, and how the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy can and cannot support privacy literacy initiatives.