Protecting your Identity

Why is it important to protect your identity?

• Because everyone does it.

• Because you will make more friends.

• Because being online is a safe environment.

• Because someone might steal you personal information.

How long can your "digital footprint" last online?

• Forever

• Minutes

• Months

• Hours

Which term describes a set of rules for appropriate behavior while on the Internet?

• Identity

• Netiquette

• Cyber-security

• Social Network

Which term describes bad people who watch and read your personal information online for the purpose of harassing or harming you?

• Online teachers

• Digital footprints

• Online predator

• Social networks

If you are leaving traces of personal information about yourself online, available to obtain, then you are damaging your:

• grades

• friendships

• gaming record

• digital footprint

One of the most popular online activities - and one that poses the greatest risk to your privacy - is:

• online gaming

• watching movies

• social networking

• checking e-mail messages

Which of these is the best way to monitor your online presence and how other people see your information?

• Ask everyone you know to tell you what they see.

• Make sure you have all your information visible.

• Google yourself.

• Use a password manager.

What is NOT true about your digital footprint?

• Online predators never look at your personal information.

• College admissions offices are not allowed to view this.

• Potential employers can use your history to determine future employment.

• You can erase your digital footprint.

Which of these is a good way to keep your online privacy?

• Use an avatar or picture of some other object.

• Make your posts visible to everyone, all the time.

• Make your hometown, school, and sports team visible in your profile.

• Post your cell phone number online.

Which of these is true about privacy policies on social media websites?

• They're required by law to be posted for users.

• They can never change once they've been set.

• The site does not have to inform you if they've been changed.

• You can select which policies you would like for yourself.