This document discusses information privacy and encryption. It begins with an overview of an assignment and upcoming lecture and video on spying. It then discusses data privacy, collection and dissemination of data, and legal issues. It defines encryption as a core information security tool to ensure privacy and discusses how it can be both beneficial and detrimental. It asks the reader to consider if certain types of sensitive information are protected enough. It further discusses encryption and privacy enhancing technologies, why people are averse to using them, and the costs and benefits involved. It concludes by asking the reader to think about the importance of such technologies now and in the future, and how a new CIO would address privacy in light of government policy changes.