{"id":17463,"date":"2020-01-16T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=17463"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:09","slug":"when-privacy-becomes-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/16\/when-privacy-becomes-a-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"When privacy becomes a thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103.jpg\" alt=\"two women by a wall with many CCTV cameras focused on them\" class=\"wp-image-17466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103.jpg 640w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103\/\n\">(Burst\/pexels.com)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Svetla Sytch<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/03\/svetla-sytch-named-assistant-director-of-privacy-and-it-policy\/\">the recently named assistant director of privacy and IT policy for U-M<\/a>, brings a unique perspective on privacy and its role in higher education. &#8220;When I was growing up in communist Bulgaria, privacy was not a thing. Come to think of it, we did not even have a word for it,&#8221; she wrote recently in an <a href=\"https:\/\/er.educause.edu\/blogs\/2020\/1\/when-privacy-becomes-a-thing\">article for EDUCAUSE Review<\/a>. &#8220;Everyone knew about the government surveillance, and we adjusted our lives accordingly.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Sytch, privacy officers at higher education institutions can go beyond data protection legal requirements and provide privacy management education and tools to their campus constituents. As a result, they empower others to demand more privacy protection from the world outside academia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The mission of such institutions is to educate and challenge in service to society,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;This mission is in direct opposition to the repressive environment and conditioned behaviors I experienced years ago in another life. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Svetla Sytch, the recently named assistant director of privacy and IT policy for U-M, brings a unique perspective on privacy and its role in higher education. &#8220;When I was growing up in communist Bulgaria, privacy was not a thing. Come to think of it, we did not even have a word for it,&#8221; she wrote recently in an\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/16\/when-privacy-becomes-a-thing\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[155,63,121],"class_list":["post-17463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-administration","tag-policy","tag-privacy"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103.jpg",640,426,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103.jpg",640,426,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103.jpg",600,399,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103.jpg",640,426,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103.jpg",640,426,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103-640x300.jpg",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103.jpg",640,426,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-person-standing-under-lot-of-bullet-cctv-camera-374103.jpg",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Svetla Sytch, the recently named assistant director of privacy and IT policy for U-M, brings a unique perspective on privacy and its role in higher education. &#8220;When I was growing up in communist Bulgaria, privacy was not a thing. 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