Cybersecurity Threats & Identity Theft
This is one of the most telling casers of how dangerous internet scams can be.
What is the 2014 celebrity identity theft case?
This term describes the ability to critically evaluate, navigate, and protect oneself in digital environments- and is considered the foundation of effective social media privacy education.
What is digital literacy?
This percentage of Americans are concerned about how companies use their personal data?
What is 79%?
This Meta platform was part of the lawsuit involving K.G.M. and was found to have harmful addictive design features.
What is Instagram?
This type of scam uses fake messages or links to steal personal information.
What is phishing?
These three areas of digital literacy help predict how well people protect their privacy online.
What is technical knowledge of the internet, knowledge of institutional data practices, and understanding privacy policies?
This European privacy law is often seen as the strongest model for protecting user data?
What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
This amount was the total money awarded in the K.G.M. lawsuit against Meta and YouTube.
What is $6 million?
This amount of money was lost to fraud that started on social media between 2021 and 2023.
What is $2.7 billion?
Only this percentage of adults say they know a lot about what companies actually do with their data?
What is 6%?
The General Data Protection Regulation improved this by requiring companies to clearly disclose their data practices?
What is transparency?
The legal theory supported by this case argues that social media platforms can cause this type of harm.
What is preventive injury?
This age group most targeted by social media scams, making up 85% of fraud losses according to the FTC?
What are ages 18–29?
Privacy literacy training improved online behavior in children in what age group?
What are ages 9–13?
This current U.S. privacy protections are described as what?
What are fragmented?
This company faced years of criticism over risks to children and teens on its platforms.
What is Meta?
These technical mistakes can leak personal data and lead to identity theft?
What are weak passwords?
This number of U.S. states have privacy-related education standards.
What is 44 states?
This author argues that companies build business models around collecting personal data for profit.
Who is Shoshana Zuboff?
In the New Mexico case, fake child accounts were contacted by adults who believed they were talking to a ___-year-old girl.
What is 12?