Reading: Online Privacy Who Owns Your Data
Online privacy who owns your data is a B2 reading text on a critical contemporary issue. The text covers what personal data companies collect (browsing history, location, contacts, biometric data), how it is used (targeted advertising, AI training, behaviour prediction), legal frameworks (GDPR, CCPA, privacy policies), and practical privacy-protection strategies (VPNs, encrypted messaging, browser settings, data-broker opt-out). Learners read for data-flow identification, policy-distinction, and protection-strategy analysis.
This worksheet builds B2 reading comprehension through a data-privacy text.
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What’s inside:
- A B2 reading text (~550 words) on online privacy and data
- Pre-reading vocabulary box with privacy and data-protection terms
- Comprehension items: data-flow identification, policy-recognition, strategy analysis
- Vocabulary-in-context: privacy and data-protection vocabulary
- Writing follow-up: describe your own privacy practices and one change you’ll make
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes
Common challenges: Privacy vocabulary at B2 is dense and legalistic — personal data, sensitive data, anonymised, pseudonymised, third party, consent, opt-in, opt-out, breach. Distinguishing between data types and processing types requires precision. Regulatory acronyms: GDPR, CCPA, COPPA. Strategy vocabulary: VPN, encryption, two-factor authentication, end-to-end encryption.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B2, in upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge B2 First (FCE) and C1 Advanced (CAE) Reading. Part of the Technology & Society Readings collection — the natural next step is Advertising and Consumer Behaviour, which extends privacy reading into the broader influence-economy dimension.
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