Privacy Tips 7-12 (Nicola Osborne)

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Digital Footprint

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The University of Edinburgh

Digital Footprint

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If I Googled you, what would I find? As we move around the online world we leave tracks and traces of our activity all the time: social media accounts, tagged images, professional presences, scraps of text, but also many artefacts we don't always realise we are leaving behind, or that others leave about us. In this course you will hear from a range of experts and you will have an opportunity to explore and reflect on your own online tracks and traces, to understand why your digital footprint is important. We will introduce you to some of the tools and approaches to effectively manage your online presence (or digital footprint). The course will focus on the different dimensions of a digital footprint, including developing an effective online presence, managing your privacy, creating opportunities for networking, balancing and managing professional and personal presences (eprofessionalism). By the end of this course (MOOC) you should be equipped to ensure that your digital footprint works for you, whether you want to be more private online, or are looking to create a more effective and impactful presence. You can also join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #DFMOOC and follow us @DFMOOC We hope you enjoy the course!

From the lesson

Why does your digital footprint matter?

This week, there is a range of experts who focus on why a digital footprint matters and how to create an effective online presence. The themes explored include data after death, privacy online and managing your online data. The activity and quizzes will help you to consider your own online presence and what you might do to make it more effective and work for you!

Privacy Tips 1-6 (Nicola Osborne)4:22

Privacy Tips 7-12 (Nicola Osborne)5:45

Audience online, time/longevity of data, visibility (Interview with David Brake)7:05

Audience (Interview with David Brake)3:13

Time (Interview with David Brake)7:05

Meet the Instructors

Louise Connelly
E-Learning Developer
University of Edinburgh
Nicola Osborne
Digital Education Manager
EDINA, University of Edinburgh

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Tip number 7, copyright.

By which I mean, can do to other people as you would want them to you.

So, don't go and take other people's content and share it and

expect them to be respectful of you and your content and your privacy.

Don't take your friend's photo of a family they shared in one space,

but repost it in another space without asking them.

That doesn't just compromise the copyright, but

it also compromises their privacy and the privacy of people who are in that image.

So, In general, being a good citizen with copyright,

using creative commons images, being wary when you're sharing things and

that you have the right to share things is really important to do anyway.

But it has progressive implications, too.

So, be mindful of that.

Okay.

Tip number 8, check your phone settings.

I realize this is less obvious than website settings.

So, social networks and

websites tend to have a lot of options that you can use, but your phone does too.

Your phone gives you information like your location, it can potentially provide

access to your address book, it provides access to your microphone, to your camera.

Check what you have authorized on there.

You can choose individual apps in most kind of phone platforms and

with most apps permissions on an app by app basis.

You can say, this site can not use my microphone.

It can not use my location.

Make sure you're happy with whatever those settings look like and

check them regularly.

That can make a big difference to your privacy.

And to what kind of information networks, websites, cookies, all of that sort

of stuff are accessing and are able to build up [INAUDIBLE] data picture review.

Okay, Tip number 9, think about data usage, and

particularly things like big data usage.

How much data can all be pulled together from these different sites and

spaces you're in?

It's sometimes like your profile or the stuff that you share is actually your

kind of browsing history that is the thing that gives away your privacy,

your habits, your persona, so you need to check Privacy settings,

you need to sort of think about what you do with cookies.

And when you see that little thing that you click away, usually,

about kind of this site uses cookies, just be aware of the fact that

they are using that to build up a data picture of you.

So, when you're thinking about privacy,

you need to think about things like cookies and the tracks that you leave

behind, in a very literal kind of bread crumb trail of web traffic kind of idea.

Okay, tip number 10, the law around social media is not just the stuff

that is specifically like this is an regulation about how to use social media.

There is a whole world of legal measures that can protect you and your privacy.

So, laws around the press and how they have information about you,

those still apply in social media.

Sometimes in slightly different ways, but they still apply.

Regulations around libel, around cyber bullying.

Around stalking and things.

Those all apply in social media in the same way that they do in real life.

because it's all real life.

So, don't forget that you have other legal measures, not just the terms and

conditions of the site you're in, not just the [INAUDIBLE] of the spaces you're in.

You have lots of other protective measures around you, if you need to,

to protect your privacy, and to be aware of when you're treating other people and

their privacy in your own kind of doings online.

And indeed, tip number 11 is, in terms of privacy,

do unto others as you would want unto you.

So, don't go tagging people if you don't want being tagged in pictures.

Do not start changing the context in which a post appears, so, if sharing

some sociable thing in a workspace, if you know that your colleague's not

going to be comfortable with that or if you wouldn't be comfortable with that.

You have to be aware of the fact that different people have different levels of

privacy that they're comfortable with online.

And you as a good citizen online you're part of that.

You have to be respectful of those boundaries that they want to have there

even if you have different boundaries.

So, be a good citizen and think about other people's privacy, not just your own,

because it also benefits your own privacy.

And my final tip, tip number 12, is know what your digital footprint looks like.

Now, you're doing this move.

I know you're very aware of these things.

But having a look regularly and seeing what's out there will

give you some hints about where you got privacy changes that you need to make,

whether they're sites that you should just remove your profile from because that went

out of date, any of those things that might be potential actions you could take

to protect your privacy, will become much more obvious when you start searching for

yourself, and seeing what kind of tracks and traces are already there.

Then you can start bringing them under your own control.

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