Privacy Pursuit: The Benefit of Privacy

Grades: 6-7

Period: 1 to 1 ½ hours

About the Writer: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education, MediaSmarts

This lesson plan was developed by MediaSmarts for the Data and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, to be made use of with the IPC’s Privateness Pursuit! activity booklet.

This lesson is section of USE, UNDERSTAND & ENGAGE: A Digital Media Literacy Framework for Canadian Universities.

Overview

In this lesson, pupils understand how their own details is important to how most of the “free” apps and platforms they use make dollars. They discover simple methods and equipment for running their privacy and program how these can be utilized to limit what audiences have accessibility to their personal information.

Learning Outcomes

Pupils will understand the next vital concepts/big ideas:

Media have commercial considerations

• Media performs these as applications and web sites that look to be free of charge are ordinarily paid for with your interest, your personal data, or both

Electronic media are networked

• Data on a connected community can get to any section of that network

Digital media are shareable and persistent

• Once you article something it can keep on the web or be shared for good and can be copied, altered, and utilised in techniques you don’t like

Digital media have unanticipated audiences

• Issues you article online – and facts gathered about you – may possibly be witnessed by individuals you did not count on and may not even know about

College students will learn the subsequent crucial domain knowledge:

Privateness and Security:

• Privacy challenges contain ripoffs, humiliation, hurting people’s thoughts, cyberbullying and threats to house or personal safety
• Using proactive ways to control your privateness can restrict privacy risks
• Be thorough what own details you share online
• Privacy settings can manage who sees what you post
• Passwords are an important software to shield your privacy
• Some web-sites, apps and products and services should really be previewed by trusted adults, or not applied by small children at all
• Build pseudonymous usernames and avatars for online gaming
• Trustworthy older people are important sources for enable-looking for before and just after privacy risks occur
• Don’t click on on unfamiliar backlinks or down load documents from unknown senders

Consumer Awareness

• Most “free” apps make income from marketing advertising, and in some situations by gathering and providing personal information
• Advertisers will fork out a lot more if ads are qualified to you utilizing your personal information
• Platforms also use your personal info to present or endorse information that will maintain you intrigued and viewing ads

Students will study how to:

• Use: Control privacy threats by proactively employing privacy strategies
• Fully grasp: Analyze the privacy threats of diverse gadgets, applications and online activities
• Engage: Produce tactics for restricting the effects of information collection on their online experience

Individual Information Protection Competencies:

Personal Data:

• I comprehend what is concerned in the concept of particular data, defined as any data—whether or not it was made public—about an identifiable individual
• I know and recognize the principle of pseudonymity and masking one’s identity
• I can give examples of particular knowledge that can right recognize people (civil/household status, photo of a student in the course, and so on.) and technological data that can watch the things to do of a individual and discover them (cookies, geolocation info, etc.)

Comprehending the Digital Environment

• I know what the world-wide-web and its companies are (social networks, cell purposes, the cloud, etc.)
• I know the critical IT challenges I know electronic safety is essential and have an understanding of the will need to ensure the bodily and sensible security of a digital environment.
• I am careful to only share the own facts that is totally important to register for a service
• I know that there are techniques to secure myself online
• I evaluate my methods and build difficulty-solving and studying reflexes— namely about security—by determining assets (consumer communities and boards, tutorials, etc.)
• I know who the key player groups in the digital economic climate are (e.g., ISPs, company companies, builders, curators, etc.)
• I have an understanding of the techniques utilized to sector items and offer you cost-free solutions (loyalty playing cards, specific advertising by using cookies, setting up user accounts, subscribing to newsletters, etc.), for the function of setting up individualized user profiles
• I can give examples of digital products and services whose financial product requires — or does not entail — the collection of personal data

Taking care of my Data

• I know that I can handle the configurations of the on-line programs and companies that I use.
• I know that, to use specific on the web products and services, my consent  or consent of my mothers and fathers/authorized guardians is required
• I use techniques offered to protect my personal data

This lesson and all connected files (handouts, overheads, backgrounders) are readily available in an simple-print, pdf kit version.