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We hope you have found this learning event useful and that it has stimulated you to address some of these important issues with your pupils.

We would like you to select one of the areas that we have looked at and then draw up an outline of a lesson plan that you can use to deliver some of these messages to your pupils. You can use the lesson plan template provided in the materials section or one of your own. Please share this in the forum once you have finished so that others can benefit too.

Here are some ideas for discussion based around the passwords module which you might find useful as a starting point. For those of you who would like to see some examples of lesson plans - you can find some from our WebWeWant resource which relate to privacy in the materials section where you can download them - they are aimed at 13-15 year olds.

Ask your students why passwords are important. Ask them to give relevant examples of when they use passwords and to consider any reason why passwords should not be used. Make reference to the importance of keeping online information secret and make examples on possible consequences of stolen passwords. Example: would you be happy if anyone could access your private conversations with friends?

Ask your students to write down the 5 rules they have learnt on password security. Similarly, you could ask them to write down what they should never do (i.e. use 1234 as a password etc.)

(Rule 1) Go to the Luxembourg Safer Internet Centre’s website (https://pwdtest.bee-secure.lu/?lang=en) and make your students create “strong passwords” according to the rules they have learnt in class. Emphasize the fact that passwords should be strong as well as rememberable: it is unhelpful to create an extremely long and complicated password if you forget it the next day!

(Rule 2) Ask your students whether they would write down your password on a paper and stick it to the computer’s screen. If anyone says yes, ask why and try to convince him/her this is not a good move. Ask your students to think of places where they could hide their password’s list. Try this: ask students to guess where other students would put their password’s list.

(Rule 3) Ask your students to think of examples of why they should never share a password with anyone, not even their best friends: passwords are meant to be secret and a best friend today may not be in the future!

(Rule 4) Whilst best practice is to have a different password for each website, ask your students to think of different group of passwords and to associate them to groups of websites/applications. For example: think about a password that you would use for your social media websites (Facebook, Instagram etc.), but not for e-commerce (Amazon, Ebay etc.). Make them understand that the more important the website (in terms of having more important personal information such as banking), the more unique the “group of passwords” should be.

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Find more resources on the Better Internet for Kids portal!

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More cyber hygiene resources in various European languages can be found at the Better Internet for Kids portal. Check out the #SaferInternet4EU campaign page.

Top Tip! Additional resource for Czech speakers!

Check out the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) portal for more resources such as “CyberCrime” by the Czech Safer Internet Centre. (Note resource only available in Czech).

[1] Information was collated from https://www.social-engineer.org/; https://www.esecurityplanet.com/views/article.php/3908881/9-Best-Defenses-Against-Social-Engineering-Attacks.htm; https://www.webroot.com/ie/en/home/resources/tips/online-shopping-banking/secure-what-is-social-engineering; https://www.ed.ac.uk/infosec/how-to-protect/social-media-protection/social-engineering.

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When creating a social media account, it is important to use privacy settings and take control of what is being shared. Open (or public) profiles are not a good idea. Behind a cute puppy profile picture, there might be someone bad who is interested in something more than an online friendship. You do not know what these bad people will do with the information they obtain online, but they certainly do.

For an extra layer of security: learn more about social engineering

The best way to avoid falling victim of social engineers is to know more about their practices. Social-engineering.org (https://www.social-engineer.org/) has an information section for people to learn more about the psychological, physical and historical aspects of social engineering. The two subsections on “common attacks” and “real world examples” are good to gain a better understanding how social engineers operate. The blog is also informative.

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As a parent of an 11-year-old boy, I always wonder what he's going to get himself into. (usually after reflecting on what I did when I was younger) I didn't want him not to use technology, so I started him off with an iPod then when I got a new iPad, I gave him my ...

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People should be aware of what they post online and what is shared in general.

For example, there are programs that can aggregate what one posts/uploads online. They are called social network aggregator software and sometimes they are used to gather as much information as possible about a person, before sending a carefully planned social engineered attack.

Take a look at this video to understand how much all of us share online

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When people are most likely to be victim of social engineering

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When people are most likely to be victim of social engineering

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It could look like a message (or an email) from an (alleged) best friend suggesting that you check out a fun app.

Or your favourite game telling to download a great new game.

Or an advert on Facebook offering discounted tickets to see a great artist which appears to be endorsed by a friend.

Three rules[1] on how to not be tricked by social engineers:

1. Never send confidential information to anyone, be careful when you share personal data

No credible online service will ever ask for username and password in a different situation than the app or the website’s login page. Likewise, a bank will never ask you to send credit card details by email. If in doubt you should go to the genuine website of your bank – do this by typing in the URL (web address) rather than by clicking on a link provided in an email as these will often take you to a page which looks genuine but which is not.

Usually, websites or apps will ask for some personal data like name and surname, home and email address, maybe an identification number, in order to sign you up to their services, but before providing this information, think about this question: do you trust the site to handle your data properly? If it looks a bit dodgy, maybe you should look for a more reliable service that someone like parents or teachers can recommend?

2. Be critical

When any kind of information online is seen or received, it is important to be critical and vigilant. Two things are really important to check out if you want to detect possible scams: context and the person/service interacting with you.

Examples for teachers:

Tell your students to be cautious about things online that appear out of the blue and seem too good to be true.

Some examples:

First, is the context feasible? If an online advert or an email encourages you to buy a newly released videogame for only 9,99 euros despite the fact that it actually costs 70 euros pretty much everywhere else, should you believe it? Why would they sell it for such a discounted price? If it looks too good to be true then it probably is.

Second, is the person you are interacting with credible? If a “university admission expert” promises to get you into your dream university, what are his or her “experts’ credentials”? Why is he or she putting pressure on you to make that online payment, if admissions deadlines are literally in a year? And, how does he or she know you really want to go get into these three programs that only you and your parents know about?

Check this link for a story that actually happened to see what went wrong.

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Did you recently receive an email with one of your old passwords in the subject line and a request for bitcoin?

It's a new kind of scam.

The attacker probably took your password from a publicly available database of old leaked passwords and email addresses.

Here's how to keep yourself safe.

There's a new scam going around that would terrify most people if it ever landed in their inbox.

The emails are slightly different depending on who's being attacked, but they all have a few similar features:

The subject line includes a password that you probably have used at some point.

The sender says they have used that password to hack your computer, install malware, and record video of you through your webcam.

They say they will reveal your adult-website habits and send video of you to your contacts unless you send them bitcoin, usually $1,200 or $1,600 worth.

Here's one example of these scam emails, sent in the past month:

Ian Kar, a New York-based product manager who was sent the scammy email, said that after he received this threat, he spent an entire day changing all his passwords and buying 1Password, a password manager.

He said he was pretty sure his password was included in one of the big leaks in the past few years - databases have been stolen from LinkedIn, Yahoo, and eBay, for example. You can check whether your password is in one of these leaked databases over at the website Have I Been Pwned.

Basically, the attackers don't actually have video of you or access to your contacts, and they haven't been able to install malicious code on your computer. In reality, they're taking a password from a database that's available online, sending it to you, and hoping you're scared enough to believe their story and send them bitcoin.

Some scammers have even made over $50,000 from the blackmail scheme, based on an analysis of bitcoin wallets, Bleeping Computer reported.

As Brian Krebs, a leading security journalist, writes, this scam is probably automated, meaning you haven't been specifically targeted:

"It is likely that this improved sextortion attempt is at least semi-automated: My guess is that the perpetrator has created some kind of script that draws directly from the usernames and passwords from a given data breach at a popular Web site that happened more than a decade ago, and that every victim who had their password compromised as part of that breach is getting this same email at the address used to sign up at that hacked Web site."

For now, the scammers seem to be using really old passwords - maybe one you haven't used in years. But as the scam develops, there's a good chance it may include credentials from a fresh breach, according to Krebs.

Other good ideas to keep yourself safe: use long and strong passwords, get a password manager to ensure each account has a unique password, and turn on two-factor authentication on your important accounts. The FBI also recommends you turn off or cover any web cameras when you're not using them to prevent sex-based extortion schemes, even if this kind of scam ends up being a hollow threat.

And no matter what you do, don't send bitcoin to the scammers.

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Did you recently receive an email with one of your old passwords in the subject line and a request for bitcoin? It's a new kind of scam. The attacker probably took your password from a publicly available database of old leaked passwords and email addresses. Here's how to keep yourself safe.

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This is an example of silly social engineering. But some attackers are really smarter than that, sneakily playing with emotions and making the whole situation look completely normal…watch this sophisticated social engineering video in which this talented woman hacker accesses a poor man’s account by tricking his customer service!

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What is social engineering and why is it a threat?

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According to the Oxford Dictionary, social engineering is “the use of deception to manipulate individuals into divulging confidential or personal information that may be used for fraudulent purposes.”[1]

Social engineering techniques are frequently used by online criminals to trick victims into trusting them, and then obtain information they need to fully perpetrate their crimes.

Recent research[2] found that 2/3 of victims of identity theft and impersonation were identified as having been compromised through a data breach or through social media.

The video (data to go) shows just how much information can be gleaned by simply “liking” a Facebook page.

How (silly and sophisticated) social engineering works

Take a look at this video

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We are being told that we should back up into the cloud – but can we trust the providers to look after our data? Is it safe?

Iwona Lis - 09.10.2018 19:54

Answer : I don't trust clouds. I prefer to have saved my material to disks or at my links created by me. Never I share document personal at internet, so I feel safe.

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According to the Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries, a backup is “a copy of information held on a computer that is stored separately from the computer”[1] and/or “a copy of a file or other item of data made in case the original is lost or damaged.”[2]

Backups are important because they allow the restoring of files and data that are lost or stolen.
3. Backup with an USB pen drive or an external driver

It is important to backup data using a device other than the computer on which data are stored. Saving your files on a personal computer is not enough. That computer can be stolen or hacked and those files can be gone in a minute.

There are many devices that store files. A USB pen drive or an external hard disk are great, they are relatively cheap and they have plenty of space to store. Choose the perfect device: a USB pen drive is smaller, but a hard drive has more space.

For an extra layer of security: consider using an online storage service.

There are plenty of online storage services that allow storing files online free of charge for a limited amount of space, ranging from 2 to 15 GB. As rule of thumb: 2GB can contain between 200 and 400 pictures depending on their quality, while 15GB stores between 750 and 1,500 pictures. Take a look at some services on Wikipedia for a comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_hosting_services[1]

An important feature of these services is that you can access the stored files from anywhere. The user usually has to go onto the service provider’s website, enter their own account details with their username and password and download them.

There is obviously a security problem. Theoretically, if the service provider is breached, data can be found and accessed by criminals. This is why users should carefully choose what to upload online as well as taking care over where to store it.

Three rules to follow:

1. Backup everything that is important

When one has to decide what to backup, you should start by answering a really simple question:

What files or data do you have in your computer that you would hate to lose?

Example for teachers:

You could explain to students the context in which they should do a back up. There are things that people usually hate losing such as pictures and homework. Explain that you know this is difficult and often seen as a hassle but it is important. You can tell your students that when they go home at the end of a holiday it is important to make a copy of any photos that they’ve taken just in case!

2. Backup as often as your value your data

Backup as often as you value your files and data: if you would hate to lose the work you’d done just from one day, then backup every day! Teachers spend a lot of time planning and creating and time is precious, backing up is really important. The job is difficult enough, don’t make it worse by losing your work. A school in the UK was recently attacked by cyber-criminals[1], their server was encrypted and the school actually paid the ransom to have the files released. This sort of thing does happen – but having a good back up means it is much less of a problem.

Example for teachers:

You could give your students an example to make them realize the importance of backing up data.

It was the end of the summer and I was writing the final paragraphs of my summer essay. I was really proud of it, it was the result of almost 3 weeks of work. I knew I was going to impress my teacher and get a good grade. I was writing the final paragraphs when, suddenly, the house’s lights went off and my computer froze. When I turned my computer on again, my essay was gone! Three weeks of sweat and hard work all gone! In the end, I managed to rewrite the essay, but it was not as good as the first one…and I had to stay home and spend the last two weeks of the summer rewriting it rather than playing football with my mates. From that day on, I backup my homework every night.

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Better Internet for Kids portal!
More cyber hygiene resources in various European languages can be found at the Better Internet for Kids portal. Check out the #SaferInternet4EU campaign page.

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How long it would take a computer to crack your password?

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Module 2 - PasswordsPlease share any thoughts, ideas and comments about this module.Why are we so bad with passwords? Many of us use the same password for lots of things - or we only change one or two letters or numbers. Are we just lazy? Do we think that we will never be a victim of cybercrime? How can we get people to take this more seriously?

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Module 2 - PasswordsPlease share any thoughts, ideas and comments about this module.Why are we so bad with passwords? Many of us use the same password for lots of things - or we only change one or two letters or numbers. Are we just lazy? Do we think that we will never be a victim of cybercrime? How can we get people to take this more seriously?

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I believe that because we are so busy we prefer to choose as passwords easy words and numbers to remember, also the same passwords help us not to forget them. But, however, we must be clever choosing our passwords because our personal life our life generally is in a sure real danger.

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4. Use different passwords for different accounts

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It is important to have a different password for every device, application and website. In case these are hacked, passwords and usernames can be revealed and spread all over the internet and then used by cyber criminals to access accounts that are protected by them.

If having a different password for every account is too much to manage , then another tip could be to think of groups of passwords. For social media like Facebook and Instagram, you can have one password; for the school account, another one. If one decides that is the way to go, a good rule of thumb is: the more important the website, the more unique the password should be. If a website or application stores really important information, one should have a strong password and use it only for that website.

5. If you change your password, change it entirely

It is ok to change passwords from time to time, but when is done, one should change the entire password and not a small piece of it. Smart criminals can make educated guesses from previously used passwords and deduce how passwords are created.

For example, if one finds out that you change your password usually…

MilkFootballMonday2018

MilkFootbalMonday2019

MilkFootbalMonday2020

…it would not be difficult to guess what the next password will be!

For an extra layer of security:

Some public internet connections, such as in airports and in coffee shops, can be misconfigured and unsafe. Cyber criminals could have infected them and be ready to intercept the information that are transmitted online. Therefore, it would be better to avoid entering passwords when these public Wi-Fi connections are used and, more generally, on computers that are not your own. In this case, someone could have installed a program memorizing everything that is typed on the keyboard, including usernames and passwords.

Some websites offer an extra layer of protection and use multi-factor authentication: this can be quite burdening, but one should consider using multi-factor authentication for websites that are particularly valuable to you, such those storing financial information.  If you are interested, please click on this link to see how to set up two factor authentication.

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For an extra layer of security:

Instead of using a safe, a password manager can be a useful tool to keep passwords safe. The advantage of a password manager is that it stores all passwords and usernames in a single place. It is useful, but also risky. In theory, someone with access to a computer, could also access the password manager and steal usernames and passwords. However, password managers require to set up an initial master password, in order to keep all the others safe. Some of the most popular web browsers have a password manager integrated. If you would like to know more, read this article on Wikipedia and choose the perfect password manager from this list.

3. Don’t tell a personal password to anyone

Some things are better kept secret, even from the closest friends. One should never tell anyone else their password or where they are stored. Do not be like them!

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It is true that if someone found that piece of paper, it could access all the websites and apps that are protected by those passwords. First, we suggest to not write on the same line the website/app and the password you use to access it. Even if someone found the password’s paper, it would be harder for this malicious person to know what password is used to enter a specific website. Second, and most importantly, it is important to put that piece of paper in a safe place, where none could access it. Some suggest to hide the list of passwords inside a paperback book – away from the device.

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The importance of taking care with your passwords

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For an extra layer of security:

You can think of increasing the complexity of your password:

1. Choose three random words, use upper cases and add a number.

“MilkFootballMonday2018”

1. To make it even more difficult to guess, add a special character for a final layer of protection:

“MilkFootballMonday2018!”

To guess the password“MilkFootballMonday2018!”, it will take a computer 252 sextillion years.

2. How to remember passwords: write them down and put them in a safe place

Creating a strong password is not difficult, but the problem is remembering all of them. The suggestion here is to write them down.

But be aware, one should never write down a password and stick it to the screen of the computer. Anyone can easily find it and use it to access your accounts!

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Five rules about passwords security everyone should follow: 

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1. Create a strong password: MilkFootballMonday2018!

There are many articles online on what makes a strong password – and it can be incredibly confusing. Let’s start with the top 10 passwords one should NEVER use:

These passwords are too simple, short and are usually the first ones that cyber criminals attempt when they try to access online accounts. Test your password strength with the following tool created by the Luxembourg Safer Internet Centre by clicking on the image below.

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What is a password and why it is important?

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What is a password and why it is important?

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The dictionary defines password as “a secret word or phrase that must be used to gain admission to a place.”

It is typically used with a username, which can be anything ranging from a name, an email or a mobile phone number.

Passwords are important to keep personal information safe or to access an online service.

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Discussion to our forum - Answer to the question : why do we care so little about privacy?

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Discussion to our forum - Answer to the question : why do we care so little about privacy?

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ΜΑΡΙΑ ΠΑΝΟΥ - 10.10.2018 20:15

In our island's world, closed, safe, friendly, it's too difficult to believe we are in danger by speaking to strangers as we all speak to all our neighbours, people, tourists as they are our own people. But now we live to a worldwide village, and we don't know eachother. So parents, teachers, adaults have to prepare for this crue, unsafe, unbelieveable world our youth teenagers to be careful

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European Commission - PRESS RELEASES - Press release - Questions and Answers - General Data Protection Regulation

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European Commission - Press Release details page - European Commission - Fact Sheet Brussels, 24 January 2018 The data protection reform package which entered into force in May 2016 and will be applicable as of May 2018 includes the General Data Protection Regulation ("Regulation") and the Data Protection Directive for the police and criminal justice sector.

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The meaning of PRIVACY is the quality or state of being apart from company or observation : seclusion. How to use privacy in a sentence.

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They touch on our privacies and our rights.

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

privacy

These are words often used in combination with privacy.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.

data privacy

Specifically, the three main requirements were data privacy, system robustness and compliance with industry procedures.

expectation of privacy

People generally have the greatest expectation of privacy in their homes and in their private vehicles when going about their everyday lives.

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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Definition of privacy - a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people

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For discussion in the forum

Why do we care so little about privacy – does it really matter? How can we get young people to take it more seriously? Please share your thoughts and ideas in the forum.

Find more resources on the Better Internet for Kids portal!

More cyber hygiene resources in various European languages can be found at the Better Internet for Kids portal. Check out the #SaferInternet4EU campaign page.

Top Tip! Additional resources for Greek speakers!

Check out this leaflet from the Greek Safer Internet Centre explaining systematically how to use private browsing.

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Have you ever noticed the acronym HTTPS when you surf the web?

HTTPS stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure and means that when data is sent to these websites it is secured through encryption. To put it simply, people cannot snoop the private information sent to the website.

Not every website uses HTTPS. So, if it is not there, maybe you can suggest to your students that they use another service?

Turn off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS

It is recommended to turn off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS if they are not being used.

Open Wi-Fi connections do not always use encryption, meaning that someone nearby could potentially intercept precious data that sent over the internet such as your passwords or other details.

Smart malicious people can hack your device through the Bluetooth signal when this is switched on.

Finally, some applications and services can access and collect GPS data, similar to what they do with other data stored in your device.

| For an extra layer of privacy: Consider using Privacy Badgers and HTTPS Everywhere, developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization with the goal to defend civil liberties in the digital world. Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. It can be downloaded here. HTTPS Everywhere is a browser extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites by enabling the sites' HTTPS protection. The extension activates the website security features when those are available. It can be downloaded here.

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Nowadays, it is almost inevitable to leave an online footprint behind us.

The thing is, the bigger your online footprint, the easier it is for  people to profile you or track you down. Why? Some online services track people down mainly to display ads and make you click on them. Other people are actually trying to get personal data.

The first two rules were about avoiding flooding the web with personal information. Now, here are some little tech tricks that can limit our digital footprint and avoid our information being intercepted.

Use private browsing and multiple web browsers

Major web browsers have added the possibility of surfing in a “private mode.” The major pro is that, if someone shares a computer with other people at home, people would not be able to view his or her browsing history. Also, in private mode the web browser will not store cookies and sites data, as they will be deleted when the online session is closed.

To be fair, if you would like no-one to see what you do online, private browsing does not help much. It still allows the web browser and service provider to know what websites people are visiting, but private mode is still a good first step.

Also using more than one web browser could limit online tracking. If one uses different web browsers for different activities, one will limit the amount of information – your digital footprint – that can be collected by one single browser.

Use multiple (and possibly private) search engines

Similar to what we have just said, it might be worth using more than one search engine to prevent one tool having access to your full browsing history as well as other personal online information.

The great news is that there are some search engines that claim to be built with “privacy in mind,” meaning they are not interested in collecting or sharing any of your personal information for commercial purposes. Some of these engines are DuckDuckGo and StartPage

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For an extra layer of security

Some apps and platforms want to access some of your data “in exchange” for their services. It is a trade-off. One should be thoughtful about what information these services look for and how they are collected. When you have time, it is a good idea to take a look at the permissions granted to an app (such as access to your contacts, calendar etc.) and read their privacy policies.

Check out the Better Internet for Kids Guide to Online Services, providing key information about some of the most popular apps, social networking sites and other platforms which are commonly used by children and young people (and adults) today.

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2. Restrict access to your online profiles

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2. Restrict access to your online profiles

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Tell your students about how and who personal posts might reach and who can read them if their online profiles are accessible to everyone. There are stories and news that are better to only be shared with the closest friends. Before you start using a social networking site, a game or an online platform, one should make sure to carefully check the privacy settings. Moreover, do not add people if you do not know them! They might be just curious people chilling online, but it might be someone who is looking to cause harm to you.

This video "Your image - your future" was created by the UK Safer Internet Centre for Safer Internet Day 2017

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Your image - your future - Safer Internet Day 2017 film for 14-18 year olds

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Encourage your students to think about what people might learn about them and how that might affect their lives, now and in the future. Ask them to go back and see what they have posted one year ago: Do they still agree with what they have shared online in the past? Does it reflect the way they currently are or think? Share the outcomes of this exercise in the forum.

When you would like to share things about other people online, try to put yourself in the their shoes: would I like him or her to share the video, picture or post about me online? If you feel you would not be comfortable about it, why would you do that to someone else? Ideally you should try to always ask permission when you share moments of other people’s life online.

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What is privacy and why is it important? According to the Oxford Dictionary, privacy is a “state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people” or “the state of being free from public attention;”[1] The Cambridge Dictionary says it is “someone's right to keep their personal matters and relationships secret,”[2] while Merriam Webster defines it as “ freedom from unauthorized intrusion.”[3]

We all love to share stuff about our life and talk to our friends and loved ones online. The problem is that the internet is open to everyone, and some people can use this online information for malicious purposes. Therefore, it is important to value and protect our online privacy.

2018 is a really important year for privacy. In May, the new European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, effectively harmonizing how companies handle your data throughout the EU.  If you want to know bit more about it, read this short Q and A.

Two important privacy rules and some techie recommendations

1. Think about what you post

Before posting or uploading something online, one should take a break and think.

Is it really necessary to post and share everything? If one constantly shares everything online, it is easier for cyber criminals to profile you and find patterns. As a rule of thumb, one should assume that anyone might read what is posted online.

If every Tuesday and Thursday you take a selfie while you run on the gym’s treadmill, for some people this means that you are fit, whereas for malicious actors, it means you are not at home….what a great moment to break into your home and steal everything! Take a look at this video from the Portuguese Safer Internet Centre which shows just what can happen!

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Safer Internet Day 2015: Think B4 U post