Digital Privacy and Safety Workshop Formats
Choose your format, then your privacy topic
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Interactive Workshop
Through hands-on demos and real-world examples, participants learn how tracking, profiling, and targeting happen in everyday digital life, what to watch for and how to stop it.
Ideal for companies, schools, and community groups.
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Keynote Talk
Fast moving presentation that motivates and equips audiences to protect their personal information and create change for themselves, family and friends.
Ideal for conferences, libraries, and civic events.
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Discussion Session
This interactive session explores real concerns, questions, and scenarios — with practical guidance on how to reduce exposure and make smarter choices in everyday digital life.
Ideal for senior centers, parent groups, and staff trainings.
Privacy Topics: Turn concern into action
Want to bring s.c.halleen to your group? These are the most requested privacy topics:
📱 Your phone doesn't need to listen - it already knows enough to predict you.
Not through your microphone. Through your searches, apps, location, and behavior, it builds a profile of what you’re likely to want next. Learn how this actually works and how to limit it. (Based on the Shield Up! Training Series)
🎯 The systems tracking you for ads are the same ones scammers exploit.
It's not random. The data advertisers use to profile and predict you also makes you an easier target. Learn how it works and how to protect yourself. (Based on the Shield Up! Training Series)
‼️ Meta tracks you far beyond Facebook and Instagram.
The parent company of Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and Threads tracks your activity across apps, websites, and devices to profile and predict you. Learn how it works, and how to reduce what it collects. (Based on the Shield Up! Training Series)
▶️ Your behavior shapes what YouTube shows you.
Not just what you watch. Every click and pause teaches YouTube what keeps your attention. It shapes what you see next, and what you don't, quietly limiting what you experience and influencing what you believe. Learn how it works,. Take back control of your feed. (Based on the Shield Up! Training Series)
What people are saying
I had no idea! Grateful that I now have the tools to take action!
I still can’t believe how oppressive it is. Thank God I can protect myself.
So timely and needed...I’m taking action before it’s too late!
s.c.halleen speaks in a wide variety of settings
About the speaker: s.c. halleen
Since she was a teenager working for the local newspaper, s.c.halleen has investigated deeply any topic she pursued. Starting her studies at the Medill School of Journalism, s.c. graduated PhiBetaKappa from Northwestern University with a history degree.
More decades later than she cares to admit, she still loves diving down the rabbit hole to see where it brings her. Most recently, her attempts to research a thriller turned to horror as she realized the extent of corporate surveillance.
Concerned and alarmed, she has committed to helping people protect their privacy through PrivacyMatters2U, the Shield Up! Online Training series, 5 Photos and a Profile podcast, and public speaking opportunities.
s.c. halleen is Privacy Pup's champion and an expert in privacy in her own right. She has completed 1000s of hours of research and encourages you to check out the PrivacyMatters2u Resources page to take your own deep dive.