Privacy & Safety
The right to control your personal information and what’s shared about you online.
What is privacy?
All the information about a person online, shared by them or others.
What is a digital footprint?
Personal limits that protect your privacy, comfort, and well-being when chatting online.
What are boundaries?
When someone steals personal information and uses it for illegal activity.
What is identity theft?
This acronym stands for Specify, Explore, Evaluate, Keep Track.
What is S.E.E.K.?
Small files that track your activity on websites or apps.
What are cookies?
In this online trail, an active one is information you share, and a passive one is collected automatically.
What is the difference between active and passive digital footprints?
A feeling of discomfort, worry, or anxiety about an online interaction.
What is a red flag feeling?
Pretending to be someone else online is known as this.
What is impersonation?
Being specific with your search terms helps you find the most relevant information.
Why is it important to specify your search terms?
PII stands for this.
What is Personally Identifiable Information?
Posting a photo, comment, or filling out an online form is an example of this type of digital footprint.
What is an active digital footprint?
When someone online makes you uncomfortable, you should do this: stop chatting, block them, and tell a trusted adult.
What should you do if someone online makes you uncomfortable?
Not sharing passwords and enabling two-factor authentication are two ways to protect yourself from this crime.
What is identity theft?
Checking if a source is reliable, accurate, and trustworthy is what it means to do this.
What does it mean to evaluate a source?
Your full name and your address are examples of this type of information.
What is personally identifiable information (PII)?
Thinking about how your post affects others’ digital footprints is part of being this when sharing content online.
What does it mean to be responsible when sharing content online?
Strangers asking personal questions, requests to video-chat, or urgent download links are examples of these online warnings.
What are red-flag online situations?
Negative experiences that hurt someone’s safety, reputation, or well-being online are called these.
What are online harms?
Saving links, organizing notes, and citing sources is part of doing this with your research.
What does it mean to keep track of your research?
Doing things like reading the privacy policy, using nicknames, checking privacy settings, or limiting optional info helps you do this when signing up for a new game.
What is protect your privacy?
Choosing what to post and how to present yourself online is referred to as doing this to your online self.
What is curating your online self?
Pay attention to red flags, keep info private, and always talk to a trusted adult is advice you would give to younger students about this.
What is staying safe online?
Harm to privacy, reputation, well-being, or cyberbullying are types of these.
What are online harms?
So you don’t spread false or misleading information, it’s important to use these kinds of sources online.
What are reliable sources?