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Prepared Educational Materials for the Classroom

Privacy and Online Life, a lesson plan for 7^th and 8^th grade students, and
The Privacy Dilemma, a lesson plan for 9^th – 12^th grade students

Both presentations were created by Matthew Johnson, Media Education Specialist with the Media Awareness Network, and the support of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Online Resources for Teens

Videos

Netsmartz offers NSTeens which provides videos, information and interactive materials on gaming, social networking, cyberbullying, and offline consequences.
Data Protection Day 2010 – Think Privacy by Microsoft, EUN, Council of Europe, Coface, LSTS-Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Erasmushogeschool Brussel
Why does your privacy matter? Because of the Social Media Revolution – protect your personal information.
Project PRO: Privacy & Reputation Online, provided by ikeepsafe and American School Counselor Association, offers a video about the importance of privacy, security and online reputation. Click on Students – Digital Reputation.
Several years ago, the ACLU created a satirical video intended to illustrate how new technologies and weak privacy laws could result in access to and use of personal information even in the most mundane of contexts – the pizza delivery. While the video has been around a while, the message is still pertinent to our contemplation of data privacy issues and the potential consequences associated with large databases of personal information.
Animated clip about being safe with personal information online
Bebo’s privacy and safety videos
Privacy on social networks video
“Tracking Teresa”—learn how quickly an interested person may be able to personal information about a teen on the Internet
How to use MySpace privacy settings for parents and kids
What Impression Are You Making? Take a moment to watch Ohio State University’s new short video Social Networking Dating Failure created in honor of National Data Privacy Day. See how a friendly post today can make for an awkward tomorrow.

Information

Sophos offers updated Recommendations for Facebook settings. Be sure to check the box in the upper right hand corner for detailed information about privacy settings for your profile, your contact information, applications, status updates and more. Sophos also provides an instructive video on Facebook Privacy Settings: What You Need to Know. How often do Facebook users accept friends they do not know? What type of personal information do users tend to divulge? And does it matter? Sophos Australia Facebook ID Probe 2009 offers some insights from a recent study. Watch a video about the study and privacy issues at Do Security and Privacy Really Matter on Facebook?
Let Me Know (LMK): Life Online is a new interactive webpage for teens from Girl Scouts and Windows offering excellent pages on Privacy, Mobile Devices, Social Networking, Cybersecurity and more. Check into Girls Speak Up for articles on current privacy issues written by the site’s teen editors.
private i: your ultimate privacy survival guide, the downloadable magazine is available on the youth portal provided by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Australia. The magazine covers young people’s privacy rights in various situations and offers advice about smart privacy practices for social networking sites, shopping online, ID theft prevention, and more. This is a great resource for students.
Teens should check out safe in yourspace – a webpage offering resources for students, parents and educators offered by the Montana Department of Justice. Yourspace for teens and tweens provides information about networking; surfing, emailing and IM’ing; and cyberbullying.
Test your privacy savvy with safetyclicks’ “Online Safety IQ Challenge” provided by Aol. The quiz will appear in the box at the top of the page. Use safetyclicks’ many articles and resources to find out more about the topics covered in the quiz: social networking, sharing personal info online, using privacy settings, cyberbullying, internet slang and more.
10 New Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
An Updated Guide to Facebook
“How to Hide Your Facebook Friends List” by Larry Magid, Dec. 16, 2009
“It’s a Myth That Most Youth Don’t Care About Privacy Online” by Linda Criddle, lookbothways blog
Dubestemmer.no from Norway offers “You Decide . . .” for teens 13-17 years old. While the laws that apply in Norway are different from those in the United States or Canada, the pamphlet’s discussion of many thought-provoking privacy issues will be of interest to teens everywhere, including teachers’ and schools’ access to students’ personal information online; parents’ access to kids’ information online; the right to be left alone; the meaning of personal information; good privacy practices; risks to reputation posed by thoughtless posts; online bullying; the pros and cons and rights and wrongs of video surveillance; and pros and cons of collection and use of personal information enabled by new technologies.
Data Protection Day 2010 offers privacy information for students and teachers.
Digital Natives is an interdisciplinary collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen. The group aims to understand and support young people as they grow up in a digital age by investigating and discussing a range of themes pertaining to young people and their use of technologies. Videos and information about the new book Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives, by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser, are available here.
CyberStreetSmart’s collection of resources and facts for consumers
Connect Safely (guidance offered in English and in Espanol)
Netsmartz
Webwise Kids for teens
Attorney General Rob McKenna offers educational materials resources for teens on numerous topics, including: teens as commodities; communicating and socializing online; settings and permissions; identity theft; respect; sharing images and gaming online; defensive computing and computing on the go, among others. Also, check out the Internet privacy and security games.
In honor of Data Privacy Day, Facebook offers Five Facebook Privacy Tips You Need to Know Now, Jan. 28. 2010.

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Access Information Management, American Conference Institute, AOL, Ariel Silverstone: Intelligent Business Security, Arizona State University, Acxiom, American Life Insurance Company, Blue Sky Factory, The Boeing Company, California Law Review, CAPAPA, J. Campana and Associates, Carolina Privacy Officials Network, Ceridian, Chief Privacy Officer Mary Beth Joublanc for the Arizona Government Information Technology Agency, Chief Joanne McNabb for California’s Office of Privacy Protection, Cisco Systems, Inc., Common Sense Media, Dalhousie University, Deluxe Corporation, DeMaree Consulting, Inc., Dialogue on Diversity, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner for Ontario, First Data, Kensington, Eastman Kodak Company, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, HIPAAT, Intel, International Association of Privacy Professionals, Jackson Lewis, LexisNexis Group, Mozilla Corporation, New York State’s Consumer Protection Board, NuTech Integrated Systems, Nymity, Ohio State University, Online Trust Alliance, Rebecca Herold & Associates: Royal Bank of Canada, The Privacy Professor, Quintiles, Scotiabank, Shred Right, Speechly Bircham LLP, Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, The Western Union Company, UC Berkeley School of Law, University of North Carolina Center for Media Law and Policy, University of North Carolina School Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, University of North Carolina School of Law, University of North Carolina University Libraries, Walmart, Wisconsin’s Office of Privacy Protection, W.P. Carey School of Business

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