Looking for ways to kick the school year off right?
Start with a reminder to kids that privacy matters! Canadian kids are digitally savvy and they value their privacy, but they can sometimes be unsuspecting about the potential privacy risks of new digital communications technologies.
Our office has created a graphic novel, Social Smarts: Privacy, the Internet and You, to help young Canadians better understand and navigate privacy issues in the online world.
Parents and educators can also take advantage of our new discussion guide and privacy activity sheets to generate more in-depth discussions on the privacy risks related to social networking, mobile devices and texting, and online gaming. These tools also provide ample opportunities to raise real-life situations in which privacy can be impacted.
Because kids go online earlier in life than ever before, the privacy activity sheets vary in difficulty, from very simple (a colouring page) to more difficult (a simple cryptography activity).
You can find these and more on the Youth Privacy section of our site!