The Setup
Setting the scene
You click 'Accept All Cookies' for the hundredth time without reading a word. Then you check how much data your favorite free app actually collects — and your stomach drops.
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The Privacy Trade
→Free services cost your data. Understand what you are trading for convenience and whether the price is worth paying.
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AI & Technology Ethics
→From deepfakes to algorithmic bias, navigate the ethical challenges of a world where technology moves faster than our ability to understand its consequences. You'll navigate four escalating scenarios — from the deepfake dilemma to the ethical builder — practicing the decisions that matter most when the pressure is real and the stakes are personal. This isn't theory. It's practice for the moments that define how this chapter of your life unfolds.
What you'll learn from The Setup
This scenario focuses on Setting the scene — a critical skill inside the broader social media domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Privacy Trade, a full interactive story inside the AI & Technology Ethics quest.
Skills you'll build in AI & Technology Ethics
More scenarios in this quest
You try going a day without any service that harvests your data. No social media, no search engine, no maps. The convenience you'd been trading your privacy for suddenly feels less optional and more like a trap.
A data breach exposes information you forgot you'd shared. Your location history, your search patterns, your private messages — all indexed and now potentially public. The cost of 'free' just became very real.
You can't opt out of the digital world entirely — but you can choose what you trade and what you protect. You start making deliberate decisions about your data instead of clicking 'accept' on autopilot.
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