Teens & Young Adults
Social Networking and Privacy
- How to Update Your Facebook Privacy Settings, HowStuffWorks.com, Oct. 2011
- 5 Ways to Control Your Facebook Privacy, Social Media Examiner, Oct. 2011
- 20 Facebook Privacy Settings Tips, Techradar.com, Feb. 2011
- Recommended Facebook Privacy Settings for Teens offered by Connect Safely.
- Guide to Privacy with Facebook Video Calling, July 11, 2011
- Learn about Facebook’s Data Use Policy.and view interactive tools and other resources.
- Learn more about Facebook’s Places
- A Pew Internet & American Life Project study on reputation management and social media shows 71% of Young Adults Change Online Privacy Settings, May 2010
- Collegiate Nation, is a social network designed for students to enable networking but maximize privacy. For more information, read “A New Facebook? Collegiate Nation Offers Private Alternative for Students Only” from ReadWriteWeb.com.
Mobile Privacy
Location-Based Services and Privacy
Sexting and Sextortion
Video
- Understand the Social Media Revolution and protect your personal information from Socialnomics.net
- Go Figure (Online Safety Version) by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) has facts and figures about teens’ digital world.
- “The Colbert Report” presents “The Word: Control-Self-Delete,” a humorous take on the privacy risks of social networking and possible solutions.
- “Exposed,” by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) gives consequences of sexting and oversharing online.
- The ACLU’s satirical video illustrates how new technologies and weak privacy laws could result in access to and use of personal information even in the most mundane of contexts – the pizza delivery.
- OnGuardOnline.gov has a library of videos and tutorials
- Project PRO: Privacy & Reputation Online, provided by iKeepsafe and American School Counselor Association, offers a video about the importance of privacy, security and online reputation.
- Data Protection Day 2010 – Think Privacy PSA by Microsoft, EUN, Council of Europe, Coface, LSTS-Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Erasmushogeschool Brussel
- The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada offers a brief video regarding privacy and the business model of social networking sites on its social networking page.
- Ohio State University offers Social Networking Dating Failure, a short video created in honor of National Data Privacy Day 2010.
- Think Time: How Does Cyberbullying Affect You? by My Secure CyberSpace. Cyberbullying involves respecting your own privacy and that of others.
- Learn to STOP. THINK. CONNECT. before you go online with these PSAs from Microsoft and STOP. THINK. CONNECT.
Interactive Sites and Quizzes for Younger Teens
Smart Privacy Practices Guides
- Online Reputation Guide for College Students from Safety Web
- Heads Up: Stop. Think. Click., a publication especially for young people about smart privacy practices in the digital world. (recommended for fifth to eighth graders)
- Dubestemmer.no from Norway offers “You Decide . . .” for teens ages 13-17. These thought-provoking privacy issues will be of interest to teens everywhere. The pamphlet covers topics such as access to student information online in schools, good privacy practices, risks to reputation, cyberbullying, video surveillance and more.
- "private i: your ultimate privacy survival guide," offered by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Australia. The magazine covers young people’s privacy rights in various situations and offers advice about smart privacy practices for social networking sites, shopping online, ID theft prevention, and more.
Smart Privacy Practices Websites
- It’s Your Privacy. Don’t Ignore It. campaign, Privacy Victoria, Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Australia
- CyberStreetSmart’s collection of resources and facts for consumers
- Connect Safely (guidance offered in English and Spanish)
- Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna offers educational materials resources for teens on topics like teens as commodities, communicating and socializing online,settings and permissions, identity theft,respect; sharing images, gaming, and more.
- Yourspace for teens and tweens provides information for teens and tweens about networking, surfing, emailing and IMing; and cyberbullying from the Montana Department of Justice.
Articles and Books for Older Teens and Adults
- Lol . . .OMG! What Every Student Needs to Know about Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbyllying by Matt Ivester, founder of Juicycampus.com, 2011
- Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies by Microsoft Research’s Danah Boyd and Alice Marwick, presented June 2011.
- Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives, by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
- Facebook Privacy Settings: Who Cares? by Danah Boyd and Eszter Hargittai, August 2010.
- A Constitutional Brouhaha over Privacy by Catherine Whelan, DailyCollegian.com, Sept. 10, 2010.
- How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults When It Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies?, Social Science Research Network, April 14, 2010 – Drawing on a survey of Internet using Americans, the authors conclude that that young-adult Americans have an aspiration for increased privacy even while they participate in an online reality that is optimized to increase their revelation of personal data.
- Americans Reject Tailored Advertising: Study Contradicts Claims by Marketers, September 30, 2009. — A consumer privacy study by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at UC Berkeley School of Law exploring Americans’ opinions about behavioral targeting. Among other findings, 66 percent of adults said no to tailored ads. When informed about specific behavioral targeting techniques that marketers employ to create the ads, (techniques including tracking behavior on websites and in retail stores), between 73 and 86 percent opposed tailored advertising. You can also read a New York Times article about the study.
- “Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?” by Daniel J. Solove, Scientific American, August 2008 in Society & Policy
- “Saving Facebook ”by James Grimmelmann, 94 Iowa Law Review 1137 (2009). An article providing the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social networking sites, using Facebook as its principal example, explaining how Facebook users socialize on the site, why they misunderstand the risks involved, and how their privacy suffers as a result. Grimmelman argues that while policymakers cannot make Facebook completely safe, they can help people use it safely. Grimmelman examines the efficacy of a number of policy interventions and makes recommendations taking into consideration the social dynamics of privacy on social networking sites.
- 24 Hours Without Privacy by Danny Dover, a consultant with SEOmoz.org
- Timeline: Privacy and the Law in the United States, NPR interactive guide, November 2011.
