Personal

1
Keeping Your Personal Information

• Personal

2
Protect Your Self and Your Data

• Text Messaging
• Cell phones
• Instant messaging
• Social Networking
• Blogs
• VoIP
• Chat Rooms / IRC
• News Groups
• Email
• Voice
• Internet Video

3
Why?

• MySpace.com 50 million visitors per month
• YouTube.com 12.6 million visitors per month

4
Social Networking (online communities)

• Your profile and forums are public spaces
• People aren't always who they say they are
• Harassment, hate speech and inappropriate
  content should be reported
• Don't post anything that would embarrass you
  later
• Dont get hooked by a phishing scam

5
Your Electronic Responsibility

• Help provide a safe environment
• Respect each others individual rights
• Keep your Information Yours!

6
Bullying

• If its illegal offline its illegal online

7
Legal Issues

• Illegal to threaten, intimidate, or harass other
  people regardless of whether those threats are
  delivered in person, on the phone, via the mail,
  or over the Internet
• Contact Law Enforcement

8
Legal Issues

• Schools have a responsibility to provide a safe
  environment for the students that is conducive to
  learning
• Schools have a responsibility to respect each
  student's individual rights

9
Whos Watching

• Monitoring
• MUHS
• Teachers
• Local computer
• Network
• ISP
• Government and Law Enforcement

10
Personal Information

• When you register for a MySpace account and fill
  out the profile, you can leave nearly all the
  fields blank and even use a bogus email address
• Never include your real name anywhere on the site
• Leave out addresses, towns, school name, sports
  teams, cell phone numbers and any other contact
  information about you or your friends.
• Make sure that your friends who may link to your
  site do the same.

11
Photos

• Other ways to share photos with friends - email,
  iPod, or simply printing them
• Personally identifiable information by taking a
  photo of your car in the driveway or things
  inside your home
• Posting photos of others without their
  permission, even family members, infringes on
  their rights of privacy and potentially puts them
  at risk as well
• A photo of yourself or friends at a party or in
  some other comprising situation can lead to
  disciplinary actions against you at home, school
  or from a sport or activity
• Photos on the Internet can last forever

12
Passwords

• Keep passwords secret
• Change the password frequently
• Make it difficult to figure out

13
Respect

• Never say anything negative about anyone on your
  website!
• Posting information that can damage another
  person's reputation is called libel and can have
  legal ramification

14
Public Information

• Posting online is public information, not
  private.
• Content can easily be read, printed, downloaded
  and saved by anyone, including your parents,
  teachers, a college official or a potential
  employer
• What you post reflects who you are!

15
Problems?

• Report online stalking or harassment!

16
Problems?

• Harassment, hate speech and inappropriate content
  should be reported. If you feel someone's
  behavior is inappropriate, react!
• Talk with a trusted adult, or report it to the
  authorities

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Know the Facts

• http//www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-students.php