Privacy
What is the distinction between private and public postings on the internet according to Middlesex School's Acceptable Use Policy?
What is "if it's posted online it is public"?
From the AUP:
To express online is to publish, and to publish online is to make public. Choosing to broadcast, share, and/or publish via the Internet constitutes actions that fall within the scope of our Handbooks.
A secure website shows this symbol in your browser's URL window.
What is a padlock?
HTTPS:// (The "S" stands for secure.) This website uses an SSL Certificate to verify it's owner. All information exchanged with this website is secured.
You should be aware and understand the ____ when creating any social media account.
What are the Privacy Settings?
According to Symantec’s 2018 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), ____% of all email is considered SPAM.
What is 54.6%?
According to Symantec’s 2018 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), a whopping 54.6% of all email is SPAM.
How long can the things you share online exist?
What is Forever?
If the photos get posted online, they could be tagged and then become searchable so that even when you start at a new school or college your classmates may be able to find them.
Microsoft, Apple, Java, Adobe and Google periodically release these to fix bugs and ensure your device is protected against the latest threats online.
What are Software Updates?
Updates help guard against the newest cyber threats that old software/browsers/etc. might not be programmed to guard against.
This browser mode will erase your history and data from your computer when you close the browser window.
What is Incogneto or Private Window mode?
According to Lee Mathews, a security consultant for Forbes magazine, private browsing will remove all trace of that particular browsing session from your computer but not from the computers along the network you went through. Typically, your browser data travels through half a dozen computers just to reach your destination and another half a dozen on the way back. More, for websites hosted outside the US.
When you log into social media apps or any website, you share this even if you never post.
What is your phone's make and model, Geo-location where the app was opened, information regarding your cellular network, and the location of your friends (if they have Snap Maps turned on)?
Viruses are transmitted through emails mostly via links.
True or False
What is True?
In 2017, for example, Proofpoint reported 3 out of 4 emails delivered malware via attachments. Fast-forward to 2018 and the firm's data showed that emails with malicious links outnumbered emails with malicious attachments 4 to 1. Think before you Click!
True of False: It is against the law to take, have, or send sexual pictures of minors.
What is True?
Sending sexual pictures of people becomes illegal when the people in the pictures are underage. Legal age in MA is 16. This is the case even when you take and send a picture of yourself if you are underage. In fact, even if you didn’t take the picture or send it, just having sexual images of minors on your phone or computer can bring legal trouble.
By default, these are shown on your phone's lock screen and are visible to anyone who sees your phone before you unlock it.
What are notifications?
Most programs will ask you to allow notifications when you first run the program or if you have notifications turned off. By default, iOS and Android have notification previews visible from the lock screen. These previews can contain pictures and the first couple of lines from a text message, email, or other alert.
Even if you never share your password with another person, what entity still, potentially, has access to your personal information, computer location, and much more once you log in.
What is "The website you visit or sign in to"?
Remember the URL of a safe website begins with “https” and has a Padlock Icon attached. if its doesn't have the "https" it isn't secured with a valid certificate.
Your Facebook privacy settings is set to “friends of friends.” If you have 200 friends and they all have 200 friends, how many people will be able to see what you post?
What is Unknown/Everybody?
It is not just your settings that matter it is also your friends settings. What Apps have you given permission to access this information, and what Apps have they allowed access.
Phishers often use this type of request when trying to trap unsuspecting users.
What is Urgent Request or Exciting Requests?
Phishers typically include upsetting or exciting (but false) statements to get people to hand over their usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, and other personal information. Be suspicious of any email or communication (including text messages, social media post, ads) with urgent requests.
You should think of your online reputation as a first ____.
What is an Impression?
Think of your online reputation, as a “first impression” that people will get of you in the future.
The use of internet resources on Middlesex School's campus is considered a _____ and not a right.
What is a privilege?
Access to internet resources at Middlesex is a privilege and not a right.
There is no expectation of privacy!
When you use cloud-based third party software such as Grammarly, you agree to this type of license.
What is "nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable and sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable license"?
What is: By uploading or entering any User Content, you give Grammarly (and those it works with) a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable and sublicensable, perpetual, and irrevocable license to copy, store and use your User Content in connection with the provision of the Software and the Services and to improve the algorithms underlying the Software and the Services.”
What information is being revealed in an Instagram post?
What is Location, username, comments, friends, habits, likes, and more?
If you browse the web or send an email from a public hot such as the WiFi offered for free at Panera, McDonald or the Burlington Mall, how private is your data?
What is "Not at all"?
Panera and the Simon Property Group, like most public hot spot operators, specifically include language in their ToS stating that you "...acknowledge and consent that [they] and/or a third party provider may monitor your communication, content and activities..." while using their service.
What can you do if you come to regret something you’ve written or shared?
What is Remove content, Reach out and apologize, and make corrections?
Combat bad social media practices with good social media practices. What you post online is potentially there forever so post as if it will be shown on the front page of every major newspaper.
Middlesex reserves the right to access and review activities and communications that take place through ____ devices when those activities or communications in Middlesex School's judgment, violate or threaten to violate our Code of Conduct or other school polices.
What are Personal Devices?
A delicious tool that websites use to save information about you and your visiting habits.
What are Cookies?
Behavioral ads use cookies to track your online activity and advertise products and services tailored to you. Beware of the types of cookies being collected by each website.
Ever felt like you were being followed on the internet?
When you agree to the Terms of Service (ToS) of a social media site such as Instagram or Facebook, you make this person (or entity) responsible for monitoring how your information is shared with third party software.
Who is No One?
ToS agreements include language like "You acknowledge and agree that services such as Instagram are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information".
One of the most effective ways for malware or a virus to take control of your device or your data.
What is "Click Baiting"?
There are many harmful links or attachments but they all require you to click on them to work. Emotionally charged emails can entice you to click (or worse, forward) through some simple tricks of social engineering.
Think before you click.
According to a survey conducted by Kaplan Test Prep, ____ percent of admissions officials said that reviewing social media posts for applicants was "fair game" in their process.
What is: 68 %
The new survey of admissions officials' opinions was conducted by Kaplan Test Prep. It found that admissions officials at more than two-thirds of colleges (68 percent) say it’s “fair game” for them to review applicants’ social media profiles on sites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to help them decide who gets in.
Of course to many applicants, the question that really matters is whether their social media posts can lead to a rejection or the revocation of an admissions offer.
It turns out that these actions are rare, but not unheard-of, and more common at private than at public institutions. Four percent of admissions directors at independent colleges said their institutions had rejected students or revoked acceptances at least four times in the last two years. And at 14 percent of private colleges, that has happened at least once.