by Julia Bernd | Aug 11, 2014 | Blog, Resources/How-Tos, You're Leaving Footprints
An explanation of the iPhone’s “Frequent Locations” feature, and instructions for turning it off if you don’t want it to track and correlate geolocation data this way. However, as this article points out, turning off “Frequent Locations” doesn’t erase the data your...
by Julia Bernd | Aug 4, 2014 | Blog, Online Is Real, Resources/How-Tos, Sharing Releases Control
The media literacy organization Commonsense Media produced this lesson plan on the effects of posting information about others (and vice versa): Private Today, Public Tomorrow The situations discussed in the lesson show how important it is to keep up a conversation...
by Julia Bernd | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog, Online Is Real, Privacy Requires Work, Resources/How-Tos, Sharing Releases Control
CLIP Privacy Curriculum for Middle Schoolers The Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham University created and tested a set of lesson plans and materials for middle schoolers about online privacy, focusing on how privacy impacts reputation and on how to keep...
by Julia Bernd | Jul 28, 2014 | Blog, Resources/How-Tos, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
We recommend this visually engaging video from the media literacy organization Commonsense Media: Digital Footprint The video uses analogies to tangible physical processes and objects like footprints, photocopiers, and jumbotrons to make its point succinctly and...
by brynamo | Jul 21, 2014 | Apps/Tools, Blog, Resources/How-Tos, Sharing Releases Control
We’ve all been there. Completely fed up with social media, we want to delete your account and just wipe the slate clean. The only problem is…how exactly are you supposed to do that? Account Killer to the rescue! This site has instructions and links to...
by Dan Garcia | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog, Resources/How-Tos, Someone Could Listen
This is an important guide for those of us who need to balance the (often) conflicting desires to make use of a free WiFi service and maintain our privacy. It has four great suggestions we endorse. Read the article here
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