That's None of Your Beeswax

I can remember being a kid and asking a group of girls what they were talking about, and being told, "none of your bees wax."  None of your bees wax was another way of saying, none of your business of course, but it raises the question of collaborating on in a class or business setting.  What is none of your bees wax, by this I mean someone who is not a member of the class.  

How do you protect the identities and intellectual property of the members of the group?   

Privacy is a major issue, especially with identity theft being the number one crime in the world.  There a so many ways for hackers to get information from the members in the class.  Even Facebook has experienced its share of hackers cloning people's profiles in an attempt to get the information of the friends of that person. 

So the question is how do we as instructional designers protect those taking our courses information? 

Please share your thoughts. 

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