Green Team: Privacy

  • Privacy is the ability of individuals or groups to seclude information about themselves: when something is private to a person, it usually means that it is sensitive to him or her. Sometimes, the privacy partially overlaps with security and can include the concepts of appropriate use and protection of information. 
    The right not to be subjected to unsanctioned invasions of privacy is part of many countries' privacy laws.

    The European Union in 2016 issued a rather strict law that guarantees its citizens from the unauthorized dissemination of information and images concerning them.


    However, people often publish their data on social networks without worrying and thinking that all the information shared on the network is no longer ours, but available to everyone.
    For example, a widespread phenomenon is sharenting, the overuse of social media by parents who share contents based on their children, such as baby pictures or details of their children's activities: in extreme forms these information can be used by others who promote such kids as being their own children. This phenomenon is labeled "digital kidnapping".

    Do you know anybody who had to face privacy problems? What do you think you can do to stop this?

    Please discuss this serious problem with your team mates here and come up with up to 10 questions for a survey to understand what we can do to fight this phenomenon and raise awareness about it.

  • Hints and suggestions about the team topic

    privacy hints by italian national team

    Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively.
    To respect privacy we have to follow some rules:
    do not share personal information like birthday, address, etc...
    review and secure your social media accounts
    use differents password
    don’t use public wi-fi
    distrust online strangers
    don’t use free wi-fi
    cut back on data sharing
    keep operating systems and software up to date
    don’t post photographs that might reveal your current locations
    don’t publish personal photos or personal statements
    use secure and hack-proof website builders
    If you don’t protect yourself properly you might risk that somebody steals your identity (this is called identity theft).

    When you play with some apps, especially online, there will always be the possibility to communicate. Through a screen, all we are good to say fake information

    Privacy hints by Italian national team

    But we must always be very careful, not to pull too much the rope and give really our information: our address, our social media username, our phone number etc…
    In the social networks, we never know who’s on the other side.
    You can simply say that you are a child, a man or a woman, deceiving anyone. Almost all behaviors that victimize an Internet user start from this ability.
    What we publish on the internet will remain forever, even if we want to eliminate it. It is important to be careful when posting something and therefore we have a great responsibility. Sometimes it happens that photos of the girlfriend are sent on WhatsApp groups or in other social networks, by the boyfriend, as a sort of revenge and from those groups they can become viral and spread on the net.

    Privacy hints by Italian national team (cookies)