Internet Safety. Privacy

‘Persons or organisations which collect and manage your personal information must protect it from misuse and must respect certain rights of the data owners which are guaranteed by EU law’ (http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/).

While this applies to any form of data collection, including physical collection, it has a huge impact on Internet users with the increased use of digital data storage and transmission.

• The right to freedom of speech.

• Right to the integrity of the person.

• The right to the protection of personal data.

What is the name given to “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person”?

• Personal Data

• Login Details

• Social Security Number

Currently, we visit many websites and services over the Internet.

It is quite common that after visiting some sites, we receive unwanted advertising – i.e. advertising that we have not asked for. This is due to the fact that the advertisers have not implemented the right option for obtaining our consent, which should be the…

• Opt-out option.

• Opt-in option.

• Do not track option.

Internet users are increasingly being tracked and profiled; this is the practice of tailoring online content, especially advertisements, to visitors based on their inferred interests.

For example, a like button (such as the one used by Facebook) tracks users across sites; each time a user visits a site that contains a Facebook ‘Like’ button, the social networking site is informed about it even if the user does not click on this button.

This profiling practice carries some risks for the users among which a relevant one is…..

• Your digital identity could be stolen.

• Risks for privacy and exclusion from services.

• Mass surveillance.

Recently you have created an account for a new Social Network website that is getting increasingly popular.

When you created the account you were asked to agree to certain rules about how the website provider will treat your privacy and personal data.

What is the common name given to the document you agree with in cases like this?

• Privacy policy

• End User License Agreement

• Privacy Settings

In general, when visiting sites on the Internet providing various services, you expect that the proper treatment of your privacy and your personal data depends on the good will of the service provider (e.g. the owner of the website).

A better way to ensure your privacy would be that service providers embed privacy decisions directly in the technology itself rather than only stating their general obligations in legal documents.

Embedding privacy decisions in technology goes by the name of….

• Antivirus software

• Data Protection by Design

• Cryptography

Whenever you use a digital device and for example browse the internet and visit websites, you leave behind small traces of your activities.

These activities can be stored both in your device and also by the websites visited.

What is the common name given to these traces?

• Cookies

• Digital Footprints

• Login Details

Each year European Union Member States and European Institutions celebrate the Data Protection Day with the purpose to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection.

What is the official date of the Data Protection Day each year?

• 1st of October

• 7th of February

• 28th of January

You have just received a brand new smartphone as a gift for your birthday.

Now you have to get rid of your old smart phone, and you would like to recycle it, specifically give it to a charity that will reuse it – of course, after removing your Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card.

For your privacy, it is advisable that you…

• Use the factory reset tool.

• Remove your pictures from the old phone.

• Wipe all the existing data s from the old phone.

You often enjoy checking your social media accounts while drinking a cappuccino at the local coffee shop.

The shop has free open Wi-Fi and you can connect to it with your tablet without using any passphrase. However, one of your friends told you that there might be dangers with such open networks.

What could these dangers be?

• There might be extra hidden charges that I am not aware of.

• Other people connected to the open network can see what you are doing.

• Personal data can be stolen from my communications on the open Wi-Fi.