Video: Protect your privacy on wearable devices

Protect your privacy on wearable devices

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[Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada bilingual logo, on a black background with white circles]

[The logo on black screen moves to the left side of the screen, as a split screen moves in from the right. The other half of the screen displays a blue background with the same white circles, with the words, “Be privacy powerful” centered on the right side in white letters.]

Text appears on screen: Be privacy powerful

[Underneath “Be privacy powerful” “Protect your privacy on wearable devices” appears in white lettering. The word “Be” is underlined with an animated yellow line.]

Text appears on screen: Be privacy powerful: Protect your privacy on wearable devices

[Screens slide to the left, filling the screen with an ombre of purple chevrons from the darkest on the left, to the lightest on the right.]

[A fitness tracker and a smart watch fill the centre of the screen. The fitness tracker watch shows a white heart on its screen, and a wiggly line indicating heart rate. The smart watch screen is filled with purple squares, evocative of apps.]

Text appears on screen: Wearable devices, such as fitness trackers and smart watches,

[Text fades out, to be replaced the next part of the sentence at the bottom of the screen, the watches slowly slide apart towards the edges of the screen as the text changes.]

Text appears on screen: can raise privacy issues because they collect

data about you and your condition,

[A small white circle which has a person’s head and shoulders inside of it, appears between the two wearable devices.]

[Beneath the circle with the person, a second white circle appears, with a purple heart in the centre.]

Text appears on screen: activities

[A third circle appears beneath the circle with the heart in it, this circle has a purple rectangle depicting a map in it, with a purple, teardrop-shaped pin stuck in the map.]

Text appears on screen: and day-to-day choices

[The watches and the text fade out, leaving the three circles in the centre.]

[As new text appears at the bottom, the three circles multiply, each one producing two copies of itself, and all the circles spread out in all directions across the top of the screen.]

Text appears on screen: This information can be shared with others or used in a way that you did not anticipate

[The original three circles are outlined with an animated red outline.]

[The words, “Increase your privacy power” appear in yellow, with the rest of the text appearing in white on the bottom half of the screen. Above the words, the head and shoulders of a person, and an dotted line draws itself in a circle around the representation of the person.]

Text appears on screen: Increase your privacy power with these seven tips for protecting your privacy while enjoying the benefits of wearable technologies

[As the white dotted line finishes drawing on the right-hand side of the circle, a thicker, solid yellow line draws itself overtop of the dotted line, working all the way around the circle. When it reaches the top, the whole circle pulses with a flash of light, much like a computer powering up, and then fades out with the text.]

[On an empty background of purple chevrons, this same yellow circle appears in the upper left corner of the screen, starting large and shrinking inward to turn into the header “1.” written in bold white text.]

Text appears on screen: 1. Read the privacy information before you buy

[Beneath the header, the text appears to the left, with a smart watch to the right. Little squares fill the watch’s screen, and the middle square blinks on yellow.]

[The middle square expands to fill the whole screen of the smart watch, and the yellow resolves itself into a yellow shield with a checkmark in the centre.]

Text appears on screen: Review the device’s security features carefully

[The watch’s goes back to the rows of tiny purple squares as the text changes.]

Text appears on screen: For example, does the device require you to take action

[The middle square in the top row turns yellow.]

Text appears on screen: to initiate pairing with another device?

[An icon representing signal strength moves out from the right side of the watch - one small white circle, with a column of curved lines blinking on above it to indicate signal strength. As it reaches maximum, a drawing of a smartphone appears, with small circles indicating apps on its screen.]

Text appears on screen: If it doesn’t,

[The smartphone disappears, and is replaced by a white, a face, with glaring eyes and a large, low-brimmed hat, staring from the right side of the screen beside the signal strength indicator.]

Text appears on screen: anyone within range could potentially connect with and read the data on your device

[The text, animation and header fade out.]

[On an empty background of purple chevrons, this same yellow circle appears in the upper left corner of the screen, starting large and shrinking inward to turn into the header “2.” written in bold white text.]

Text appears on screen: 2. Choose strong privacy settings

Choose settings

[The text appears to the left beneath the header, and to the right of that, a drawing of a smart watch appears with small purple squares indicating apps on the screen. To the right of the smart watch, a circle with curved lines above it indicating signal strength blinks on, growing larger. Beneath it, two white rectangles depict settings boxes on a computer. The top one says, “Bluetooth” with the Bluetooth logo on the left side of the rectangle, in front of the word, “Bluetooth” and on the right is a red slider with a white circular button pushed all the way to the right showing the slider is set in the “on” position. The bottom rectangle says “Wi-Fi” in purple writing, with a small purple dot and lines used to indicate frequency strength, beside it on the left side of the box, and on the right side of the rectangle, a red slider with a white circular button pushed all the way to the right shows the slider is set in the “on” position.]

Text appears on screen: that maximize your privacy

[The white circle button in the sliders slide to the left, and the sliders change colour from red to white, and the buttons change from white to purple. As the sliders slide left to the “off” position, the slider fades to light grey, so it is barely visible. As the sliders slide to off, the signal strength frequency indicator, the white circle with curved lines emanating out from it, disappears.]

[As the text fades out, the smart watch slides to the right side of the screen.]

Text appears on screen: If your device allows you to share information with others,

[Six small white circles float out from the smart watch in all directions to circle the smart watch. The top two white circles have hearts inside. The next two have maps with teardrop-shaped pins stuck in them, and the last two have the head and shoulders of a person.]

Text appears on screen: consider who could potentially see it

[Three of the white circles, one of each type, heart, map, and person, are outlined with a red circle.]

[Text, animation, and header fade out, leaving only chevrons.]

[On an empty background of purple chevrons, this same yellow circle appears in the upper left corner of the screen, starting large and shrinking inward to turn into the header “3.” written in bold white text.]

Text appears on screen: 3. Use a strong and unique password

[Beneath the header, the text appears on the left, and a smart watch appears beside the text. Beside the smart watch is a smartphone. They both have small squares on their screens.]

Text appears on screen: Make sure both your wearable device and smart phone are password-protected

[The small squares on the screens light up yellow in a random order, with a yellow line connecting them, like a drawable pattern password on a smartphone.]

[Text, animation and header fade out, leaving purple chevrons.]

[On an empty background of purple chevrons, this same yellow circle appears in the upper left corner of the screen, starting large and shrinking inward to turn into the header “4.” written in bold white text.]

Text appears on screen: 4. Turn off your device

[Text appears below the header to the left, and to the right a drawing of a fitness tracker appears. The fitness tracker has a white heart on its screen, and a wiggly line indicating heartbeat.]

Text appears on screen: Shut down your device when you’re not using it

[Six small white circles float out from the tracker in all directions to circle it. Two white circles have hearts inside. The next two have maps with teardrop-shaped pins stuck in them, and the last two have the head and shoulders of a person.)]

[The fitness tracker screen goes dark, and as it does the six white circles disappear.]

Text appears on screen: to limit the amount of personal information collected

[The text, animation, and header fade out, leaving the purple chevrons.]

[On an empty background of purple chevrons, this same yellow circle appears in the upper left corner of the screen, starting large and shrinking inward to turn into the header “5.” written in bold white text.]

Text appears on screen: 5. Accept updates

[The text appears beneath the header to the left. To the right, a drawing of a smart watch sits beside a smart phone. The screens of both devices show a revolving arrow, going around in a circle, and a white, rectangular loading bar slowly filling all the way up white at the bottom.]

Text appears on screen: Update operating systems and apps

[The white bars on both devices reach the end of the rectangle, and both the full rectangles turn yellow. Above, where the revolving arrows were spinning, both revolving arrows turn to green checkmarks.]

Text appears on screen: to have the latest security features

[The text, animation, and header fade out, leaving the purple chevrons.]

[On an empty background of purple chevrons, this same yellow circle appears in the upper left corner of the screen, starting large and shrinking inward to turn into the header “6.” written in bold white text.]

Text appears on screen: 6. Respect the privacy of others

[A silhouette of a head and shoulders of a person, sits on the right side of the screen, the text appears beneath the header on the left.]

Text appears on screen: Seek permission before recording or sharing video

of other people

[A green checkmark animates drawing itself beside the silhouette. As it does, a small red circle with the letters, “rec” over it appears below the person. The red circle blinks on and off as if it were recording.]

[The text, animation, and header fade out, leaving the purple chevrons.]

[On an empty background of purple chevrons, this same yellow circle appears in the upper left corner of the screen, starting large and shrinking inward to turn into the header “7.” written in bold white text.]

Text appears on screen: 7. Wipe personal information from old devices

[Text appears to the left beneath the header, and as it does, a smart watch with a number of small white circles on the screen appears. Beside the smart watch is a trash can with a closed lid.]

Text appears on screen: Make sure you properly delete data on old devices before discarding them

[The small white circles from the smart watch screen move off the smart watch, one by one. The garbage can lid opens, and one by one the white circles enter the garbage can.]

[The text, animation, and header fade out, leaving the purple chevrons.]

[The words, “Be privacy powerful” appear in the centre of the screen in white. Above the words, a silhouette of a head and shoulders of a person, and a dotted line draws itself in a circle around the representation of the person.]

Text appears on screen: Be privacy powerful

[As the white dotted line finishes drawing on the right-hand side of the circle, a thicker, solid yellow line draws itself overtop of the dotted line, working all the way around the circle. When it reaches the top, the whole circle pulses with a flash of light, much like a computer powering up.]

[An animated yellow line underlines the word “Be” as the text appears beneath “Be privacy powerful” and the website address appears below the text.]

Text appears on screen: Learn more about increasing your privacy power

priv.gc.ca/wearables

[The screen fades to black with white circles from the purple chevron screen, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada bilingual logo appears in the centre of the screen. Beneath the logo, the website address remains, the only thing that does not fade out as the screen goes from purple to black, and the “priv” part of the website address is underlined by an animated yellow line.]

Text appears on screen: priv.gc.ca/wearables

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