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Your Data: Privacy and Security for noobs #96

Closed mozfest-bot closed 6 years ago

mozfest-bot commented 6 years ago

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[ Session Name ] Your Data: Privacy and Security for noobs [ Primary Space ] Privacy and Security [ Secondary Space ] Youth Zone

[ Submitter's Name ] Mariot Tsitoara [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Mozilla Tech Speakers [ Submitter's GitHub ] mariot

[ Language ] French

[ Localisation Support Requested ] No, I can host the session myself

What will happen in your session?

The first part of the session will be a simulation of a normal browsing experience (shopping, social media...). During that part, I will ask participants what do they do the most on the web. I will also ask what kind of data about do they share willingly. The second part is to show them what data about them has been shared without their knowledge or consent. I will show the companies that had access to their data and what do they do with it. The third part is to teach them how to limit the data that they share willingly and how to protect their privacy online.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

The goal is to make people aware of the ways their privacy is taken away (by companies or by themselves). For the moment, users (usually children) don't think about that very much but I want them to realize that privacy is very important for a safe web. And I want them to have the proper tools to protect themselves.

Time needed

60 mins

chadsansing commented 6 years ago

Can you describe the data protection strategies you'll teach more specifically?

mariot commented 6 years ago

On the beginning of the session, we will make the participants aware of the different type of user data. There are explicit data (that was given by a user directly) and implicit data (gained by collecting and analyzing data from user interactions). The are also data that are acquired by a third party that the user doesn't necessarily know about. Many websites we visit contain third parties such as data brokers, affiliate networks and advertising networks who use cookies and other data tracking methods to collect information about our browsing habits without our consent.

Explicit data can be protected by changing browsing habits (oversharing, changing privacy settings...). This part is mostly aimed at younger participants because they lived all their lives with the Internet so they trust it.

Before talking about the next part, we will talk about tracking first. Implicit data can be protected by using privacy tools like browser addons. We will talk mostly about: Delete your unused accounts Protect your profiles Don’t forget about apps Configure your browser Firefox-related: Forget Button / Privacy Add-ons / Private Browsing with Tracking Protection

mariot commented 6 years ago

For the privacy part, we will also talk about passwords (and how to choose a strong one), two-factor verification and encryption.

chadsansing commented 6 years ago

Thank you for this explanation, @mariot!

mariot commented 6 years ago

Thanks for reviewing this!

I originally wrote this session to appeal mostly to younger participants but I can adapt it to a broader audience.

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