Keeping your online accounts secure
As we increasingly live our lives online, it is important to take online privacy and security seriously.
Click here for some tips on how you can keep your accounts secure and stay in control of your online privacy.
How to protect your identity online
Click here for information on how to protect your personal information online.
The Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT) seeks to build an effective, international partnership of law enforcement agencies, non government organisations and industry to help protect children from online child abuse.
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Social Media is a way of life for many teens, and even some tweens. Here are 5 rules to share with your kids before they start posting, uploading or sharing online.
Common Sense Media
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The video provides specific advice about how to protect students’ privacy, security and online reputations. Real-life dangers from predators, spammers and identity thieves are revealed through teen interviews and accounts from experts in cyber security and safety. Students are also challenged to think about ways that digital technology can be used to enhance or damage their reputations.
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The online world can be an amazing place! But it can also be unsafe. Pip has some tips on how to enjoy being online whilst staying safe including adhering to legal age limits for signing up to social media platforms, the impact of your digital footprint, sharing too much information, fake profiles, and anti-social networking.
Run Time: 2:50 mins
Social Media and Young People (Issues in Society ebook) by References
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Common Sense Media. (2015, October 3). 5 Social Media Rules for Teens & Tweens [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/AYqodXdf5YU
eSafety Commissioner. (n.d.). Keeping your online accounts secure. https://www.esafety.gov.au/young-people/keeping-your-online-accounts-secure
eSafety Commissioner. (n.d.). Protect your personal information. https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-issues/how-to/protect-personal-information
eSafety Commissioner. (2021, April). Protecting your identity. https://www.esafety.gov.au/young-people/protecting-your-identity
Healey, J. (2015). Online Safety, The Spinney Press.
Healey, J. (2017). Social Media and Young People, The Spinney Press.
Human Relations Media (Production Company). (2013). Protecting Your Online Reputation and Safety [Video]. ClickView. https://clickv.ie/w/ha_o
ThinkUKnowAUS. (2009, November 17).Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT) video [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/TG6-LbdSj5s
