Personal Data

What is personal data?

• Any data that alone, or in combination with other information, can identify an individual.

• Historical information published about a monument.

• Any information of an employee.

• Information or data that is stored in a vault.

What is an example of Personal Data?

• your teacher's name

• tags on social media

• location (address, GPS data)

• your web browsing activity

How can data be collected about you?

• talking to friends

• surveys, quizzes and online forms.

• it just happens

• economic data

Define the term digital.

• Contains a computational device

  (computer).

• A mark left where you have been.

• A trail of information about you gathered from your interactions with computational devices on the internet.

Define the term footprint.

• A trail of information about you gathered from your interactions with computational devices on the internet.

• Contains a computational device

  (computer).

• A mark left where you have been.

Define digital footprint.

• A mark left where you have been.

• A trail of information about you gathered from your interactions with computational devices on the internet.

• Contains a computational device

  (computer).

What type of file are cookies and where are they stored?

• Cookies are website files stored on my computer.

• Cookies are python files stored on my computer.

• Cookies are text files stored on my computer.

• Cookies are source files stored on my computer.

What might cookies contain?

• A name

• A name and a unique user ID

• A unique user ID

• A unique ID number

What might a website use a cookie on your machine for?

• It might use information to customise the offerings/ads it presents

• It might use information to default the page layout

• It might use information to ‘remember’ what was on your Christmas list

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person.

Which are the correct examples?

• Age, Nickname, Hours of Sleep

• Address, Pocket Money, Email

• Name, Passport Number, Ethnicity

• Location, Interests, Favourite Colour