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Our internet, our choice - Understanding consent in a digital world

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Safer Internet Day 2019 - Together for a better internet

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• f the European Union

#SaferInternetDay2019 www.saferinternetday.org.uk

Ages

14-18

5 February 2019

Target Audience

Ages 14-18

Background information on the Safer Internet Day 2019 theme

‘Safer Internet Day: Together for a better internet’ This theme has been chosen as the global Safer Internet Day theme by the Insafe network which is made up of Safer Internet Centres based in every European country. It has been designed to refmect the importance of all stakeholders in making a positive change on the internet. This change can come from individuals, schools/colleges, organisations, law enforcement and the internet industry itself. The theme encourages young people to work together to be positive, safe and respectful online. In the UK the campaign will particularly empower young people to take control of their digital lives and consider how consent works in an online context. It will explore how young people ask for, give and receive consent online. This could be in their friendships or relationships, how they take and share images and videos or how they manage their privacy and data. The presentation has been designed to be used in different ways:

• 1. As an assembly style presentation with discussion questions
• 2. To be covered in small sections over a week or series of weeks where you have the time and space to explore the

questions raised using the quick activities

• 3. As an hour long session with activities at regular intervals

PLEASE READ THE SCRIPT AND LOOK THROUGH THE ‘HOW TO USE THIS PACK’ DOCUMENT AND THE ‘QUICK ACTIVITIES’ BEFORE DELIVERING THE SESSION. IMPORTANT: Each section in this presentation contains a reference to a Top Tips video. Please make sure you download these videos from education-packs.saferinternetday.org.uk if you wish to play them. You can choose to show the Top Tips video at the end of each section or talk through with the script. There is some repetition so it is best not to use both.

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Today is Safer Internet Day, a day celebrated across the world to help keep young people safe online. This year Safer Internet Day focuses on the themes of internet ownership and consent online.

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During this assembly we will be thinking about how we take control of what we share online, who has access to this information and data about us and what that could mean for us.

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Safer Internet Day 2019 - Together for a better internet

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• f the European Union

#SaferInternetDay2019 www.saferinternetday.org.uk

Ages

14-18

5 February 2019

Section 1 How do we take better control of our lives online? Slides 5-14 Time: 10-15 minutes + activity (5-10 minutes) This section looks at how much control we have over our lives online and explores some of the nuances of online consent.

Slide 5

How do we take better control of our lives online? We are going to look at the idea of consent and giving/gaining permission when we are online.

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We can spend much of our day to day lives online. Whether it’s sending a message to a friend, clicking on Google to answer a question or simply just scrolling through social media to pass the time. But how much control do we really have over our online lives? Begin with a vote asking learners to raise their hands if they feel they are:

• completely in control of their lives online
• partially in control
• not in control at all

Then ask learners to share examples of things they can control online. You can also click through to reveal possible answers.

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Much of what we do online is all about choices. These could include:

• Choosing whether or not to share something
• Choosing to sign up to a new service
• Choosing which programme or fjlm to watch
• Choosing to accept a friend request
• Choosing to follow another profjle

It’s great to have choices online but we must consider how it can impact on

• urselves and others and whether or not we truly have consent. But what is

consent? Consent is specific permission for something to happen or an agreement to do something.

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5 February 2019 Slide 8

So let’s think about how consent online can be seen differently. What about this fjrst example - If you gave someone a photo of you and then saw it on a billboard in the centre of town, would you be happy? Please put your thumbs up if you would be happy and thumbs down if you would be unhappy. Further discussion questions:

• Why would you be happy?
• Why would you be unhappy?
• Does this happen offline or online?

(click for explanation) Although you are unlikely to see yourself like this, a lot of the terms and conditions of the apps and sites we use mean that they have the right to access and use your photos so your photo could be on a t-shirt, advert

• r leafmet.

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Would you put your friend into a room with a mix of people they know and some strangers and then leave them there? Please put your thumbs up for yes, you would do this, and thumbs down for no, you would not do this. Further discussion questions:

• Why wouldn’t you do this?
• Is it ok to add someone to a group chat online with people they don’t

know? (click for explanation) We don’t do this offmine but online people add their friends to group chats without asking or thinking.

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If you said something in private would you like your friend to share it with all of your mates? Please put your thumbs up for yes, you would do this, and thumbs down for no, you would not do this. Further discussion questions:

• Why might somebody do this?
• When would it be really wrong or really right to do so?

(click for explanation) People do share times when their friends have said something really interesting, perceptive or funny. Things can also be shared to embarrass someone or discuss things in private. What are the rules here?

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Safer Internet Day 2019 - Together for a better internet

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#SaferInternetDay2019 www.saferinternetday.org.uk

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5 February 2019 Slide 11

Would you give your friend something of yours if you thought they weren’t going to take care of it? Please put your thumbs up for yes, you would do this, and thumbs down for no, you would not do this. Further discussion questions:

• How do people give away their friends personal information online?
• How do parents give away their children’s personal information?

(click for explanation) People often give away each other’s personal information without thinking or asking. This could include adding someone into a group chat which could share their phone number, profjle picture and status.

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But why do we see consent differently online?

• Fast paced - Situations can often happen much quicker in the online world
• Better experience - You could have a better experience by clicking agree
• For the love of sharing – It can be fun to share things online and receive

comments and likes from others

• Everybody does it – It can seem like everyone is doing something online so

what would the problem be. This isn’t always the case but a few active voices can sound like many more when you are online.

• Culturally accepted – It may seem like this is just the way things are at the

moment and there is no alternative

• Without realising – We might even behave differently online and have

different expectations without even realising

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What can you do? Here are some top tips:

• If you would not give your consent in person then don’t give it online either.
• Use sites and services that give you choices and take the time to explore

these before agreeing.

• Discuss with your friends and family what you can and can’t share about

them and your expectations of them e.g. Adding you to a group chat is fjne as long as you know everyone. If you don’t, they should ask you fjrst. NOTE TO EDUCATOR: To explore this topic further you can use Quick Activity – Online Consent

• Unpacked. You could also show learners the Lightbeam add on for Firefox

that displays the websites we visit and the third party websites they share our information with. These could be done at the time, later that day or the next

• week. Decide if and how you want to use them.

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Safer Internet Day 2019 - Together for a better internet

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#SaferInternetDay2019 www.saferinternetday.org.uk

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14-18

5 February 2019

Section 2 What is the big deal about big data? Slides 16-26 Time: 5-10 minutes + activity (5-10 minutes) This section looks at what big data is and begins to explore how big the internet has become and how much data we are creating.

Slide 16

What is the big deal about big data? You might have seen some of the recent news stories about data breaches and how companies are storing our data. So what is the big deal about Big Data?

Slide 17

What is Big Data? (If time, allow learners to offer defjnitions or explanations and examples.) Data is information about us and we are creating it all the time online and offmine. It can include what we do, where we go, sites we visit, comments we make, photos we take, accounts we create. Big data is extremely large sets of data collected by organisations in order to be analysed to reveal patterns, trends, and associations, especially relating to human behaviour and interactions.

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Every minute we are creating more data about ourselves online. (Click through for examples)

• Twitter users send 456,000 tweets
• Google conducts 3,607,080 searches for us
• Wikipedia users publish 600 new page edits
• Instagram users post 46,740 photos
• Snapchat users share 527,760 photos

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Would anyone like to guess how many years it has taken us to produce more data about ourselves than we have produced in our entire history

• n the planet?

The answer is 2 years and we are creating more even now as we sit in this room.

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Here are some more statistics about the data we create and our habits online. All of these statistics are for every minute, every day, across the whole world and you need to decide which has the most:

• Are there more texts sent or emails sent?
• Are there more Google searches or videos watched on YouTube?
• Is there more money left in our shopping baskets online or more

actually spent?

• Are there more snaps sent on Snapchat or tweets posted on Twitter?

(Click through to reveal the answers)

Slide 24

With all this data being collected and stored about us – are you happy with this? (You may wish to ask this question as a vote or allow time for learners to discuss and offer thoughts to the whole group.) Further discussion questions:

• What data about us is most useful or valuable to organisations? Why?
• What data should not be kept about us? Why?
• Should we or can we opt out of data collection?

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So what should you do? Here are some top tips:

• Think carefully about the companies, sites and apps that you give your data
• to. Is it worth giving away your personal information to enter a competition or

if you are buying something from a company that you are unlikely to buy from again?

• Take control of your data. Use privacy settings. Take the time to look at the

privacy options of websites and consider not using a website if it won’t let you opt out of sharing your data. NOTE TO EDUCATOR: To explore this topic further you can use Quick Activity – Data Rater. You could also ask learners to download the data their social media accounts are holding about them and explore their settings. These could be done at the time, later that day or the next week.

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Safer Internet Day 2019 - Together for a better internet

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5 February 2019

Section 3 Whose data is it anyway? Slides 28-34 Time: 5 minutes + activity (5-10 minutes) This section looks at how we feel about the data that companies collect in return for using their services and asks what they might do with it.

Slide 28

Whose data is it anyway? Now we are going to look at data ownership and the issues around this.

Slide 29

The author and historian, Professor Yuval Noah Harari said “There is a saying that if you get something for free, you should know that you’re the product…. You get free social-media services, and you get free funny cat videos. In exchange, you give up the most valuable asset you have, which is your personal data.” With social media this seems to be a choice or contract that billions of people have already entered into. But what does this choice really mean for us?

• Slide 30

So if getting a service for free means that we are really the product, what does this mean? (You may wish to allow time for learners to discuss and offer thoughts to the whole group or simply click through to reveal some answers.) But is this win-win for us or something we should bin? (You may wish to leave this as a question for the learners to consider, run a vote or allow time to discuss.)

If you wish to create a discussion or debate you could present the case that it is a good deal. You could say something like…

Isn’t this a bit drastic? We get cutting edge technology and innovation at our fjngertips for free. The technology around us is developing so fast and we are part of it. In return the sites and devices get to know a bit about us. They fjnd out our habits, likes and movements. The data drives improvements and we can feedback on the way apps and devices work. Who pays for all this to happen? Companies do, they pay for advertising to sell us the things we wanted anyway. It is a win win situation…or is it? (If the learners agree with you, be ready to explain the concerns there are around the amount of information we are sharing and what happens to it. Do all companies need to have access to our contacts, microphone, location etc?)

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5 February 2019 Slide 31

So, who has all this data? We are creating data all the time. When we pay for things, sign in, use map apps, post photos and search for something, for example. Lots of companies will have data about us but does it matter and what are people doing about this?

Slide 32

Let’s look at Google. Here are some of the ways Google collects data about us if we use their services. Searching for things, using their internet browser, using their email, using their Maps, watching YouTube and the masses of information stored on Android devices. Google has bought over 200 companies and invested in over 400 since they

• began. The data they have can be incredibly useful in managing and deciding

what those businesses will do and how they will operate.

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So what should you do? Here are some top tips:

• Find out more about the sites and apps you use. Who owns them? Do they
• wn any other companies?
• Check how a service will use your information before agreeing to terms and

conditions.

• Go through your accounts on social media or games sites. Take out any

information you no longer want to share and use these lessons when you set up accounts in the future. Delete accounts you don’t use any more. NOTE TO EDUCATOR: To explore this topic further you can use Quick Activity – Data Jargon Buster. You could also ask learners to go through and delete any old accounts or apps they no longer use. These could be done at the time, later that day or the next week.

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Safer Internet Day 2019 - Together for a better internet

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#SaferInternetDay2019 www.saferinternetday.org.uk

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14-18

5 February 2019

Section 4 What has data ever done for us? Slides 36-41 Time: 5 minutes + activity (5-10 minutes) This section looks at the ways that data helps us as well as some of the worries about the impact this has on people’s lives.

Slide 36

What has data ever done for us? Now we are going to look at the way data can and has been used to benefjt us.

Slide 37

The good side of data

• Data is invaluable in areas like science and medicine. It is the evidence that

either proves or disproves and can make us look again at things we thought were fact.

• Data drives innovation and can also be used to infmuence us and our buying

habits.

• Data allows us to learn from our mistakes. The airlines have used fmight

recorders for years to improve safety by looking through what happened during air disasters and near misses too. Flight safety was transformed and fmying is now one of the safest ways to travel.

• A baseball team in America stopped relying on talent scouts and experts to

choose players and used cold data instead. The team recruited better players at better value and the team improved. A movie was made about it called Moneyball and football teams have started to use this too.

• Our technology has changed. We used to store things on disks, then USB

drives and now we have the cloud.

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The bad side of data Data is collected on individuals and clubbed together to form Big Data. This is used to spot patterns and trends in human behaviour in order to make

• predictions. These predictions can be used to decide whether someone is

eligible for a loan or the correct person to employ. This is done by putting everyone into categories based on their age, location, gender etc. and making judgments on everyone based on how people typically behave in those

• categories. The mass storing of data can also leave you open to hackers having

access to your personal and fjnancial information.

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5 February 2019 Slide 39

So in terms of Big Data and our lives online we can often be known by everything we do as opposed to just our name. But all this data can have a real impact on your life and what opportunities are open to you. Data is already being used to judge people. Are they a risk for a loan? Will they drive safely? Will we no longer be seen as individuals but data sets instead? (Click through to reveal) Would you rather...? ...Everything you did online was stored as data and this meant that you had a more personalised online experience and services were able to make improvements for you? OR ...Nothing was stored about you but you get a basic service which is not tailored to you and never improves? (You may wish to ask this question as a vote or allow time for learners to discuss and offer thoughts to the whole group.)

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So what should you do? Here are some top tips:

• Data is incredibly useful for all of us and society but that does not mean we

should allow access to all of our data.

• Sometimes it is the right thing to do if your data will help to treat a health

condition for example. The key is that you should be aware and decide what data is shared and who with.

• Make sure you read terms and conditions fully before signing up and only

give information you are happy to share. NOTE TO EDUCATOR: To explore this topic further you can use Quick Activity – Quote to Quote. You could run a debate about how we collect, use and store data. These could be done at the time, later that day or the next week. Decide if and how you want to use them.

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5 February 2019

Section 5 What could data do for us in the future? Slides 43-51 Time: 5 minutes + activity (10-20 minutes) This section looks at possible ways that data could be used in the future to see if they would be a great way to use our data or actually a step too far.

Slide 43

What could data do for us in the future? Now we are going to look at the way data could be used and how you feel about this.

Slide 44

Data can be very benefjcial but some worry about the way we use it. You will have to decide if the following ideas are data treachery (a bad way to use data) or a data triumph (a great way to use data).

• Slide 45

Access all areas What if people were microchipped? This would mean no more carrying around cash or typing in pin numbers and remembering passwords. Security doors would open, you could pay for things and log in easily. Is this data treachery or a data triumph? (Take their ideas or run it as a vote. After the discussion you can reveal…) Some companies have already started doing this for opening doors and storing personal information.

Slide 46

Fitness tracking saves you money What about this? Everyone wearing a device that measures how much they move and exercise to decide how much they should pay for their health insurance, medical treatment and gym membership. If you exercise and look after yourself you pay less or nothing. If you don’t then you pay for it. Is this data treachery or a data triumph? (Take their ideas or run it as a vote.)

Slide 47

Social CV Tired of applying and fjlling out forms? This will save people lots of time. You will be judged solely by your social media accounts and the reviews you get from people you meet. Is this data treachery or a data triumph? (Take their ideas or run it as a vote.)

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5 February 2019 Slide 48

Tailor-made shopping Allowing sites to store your buying preferences and know all about your appearance means no more looking around the shop for the right clothes. The shop does it all for you and brings you clothes that are the right size, perfect colours and in the styles you like. Is this data treachery or a data triumph? (Take their ideas or run it as a vote.)

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Caring devices We know that some people can struggle to stay off their devices. Well, now the devices will take care of that and you too. Your devices know so much about you there is no fooling them and they will give you lots of praise and encouragement when you are doing the right things but will not be too scared to step in and shut down if you are not looking after yourself and you have an important day ahead. Is this data treachery or a data triumph? (Take their ideas or run it as a vote.)

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So what should you do? Here are some top tips:

• Whilst these ideas can sound great or worrying they are all different ways of

using data. Data is incredibly useful and the most important thing is how we, as human beings, choose to use that data.

• Look out for the way you see data being used and challenge it when you

think it is unfair or wrong. NOTE TO EDUCATOR: To explore this topic further you can use Quick Activity 5 – Data Debater. You could ask learners to think about ways that data could be used to improve our lives or come up with some more ideas for extending the data treachery or data triumph discussion. These could be done at the time, later that day or the next

• week. Decide if and how you want to use them.

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Take part this Safer Internet Day! Together we can make a difference to how the internet is used and become more aware of what big data is saying about us. Remember that it is our internet and our choice. Please do talk to your friends and family about the issues raised today/this week and make sure that you take control of your life online and use the internet safely and responsibly.