Film 260 flipbook on the dangers of digital privacy and the importance of cybersecurity

1. privacy concerns
in the digital world
CYBERSECURITY
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2. A lack of cybersecurity has become one of the
most pressing threats to our personal privacy, with
particular concern for three issues: (1)
1 Increased Digital Surveillance
Loss of Control Over Personal Data
The Threat of Hackers
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3. “It is too difficult to give exact statistics on the amount of data
people leave, but every time we perform an online action, we are
contributing to our digital footprint. Our digital footprint are more
public than we would ever imagine.” (2)
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4. Apps providing
location-based
services request
location more
frequently than
necessary (3)
We give certain apps permission
to monitor our location, but these
apps often
of this permission
TAKE ADVANTAGE
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5. "Weather Channel app, which provides local
weather reports, requested device location an
average 2,000 times, or every 10 minutes" (3)

6. iBeacon Mannequins gather information such as age and
location about shoppers with smartphones. This data is aggregated to
create business information for retails. This information sharing raises
PRIVACY CONCERNS (4)
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7. Find My Friends,
An app operated by facebook,
uses geolocation technology
to track contacts' locations
Facebook admits it eventually plans to
use this collected data for ads (4)
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8. Marketers pay 10% to 20%
more for online ads that include
location information-when an app
requests location, 73% of the
Most users
are not
aware of
this
information
sharing
Why do apps do this?
time it shares the information
with an advertising
network. (3)
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9. CONTEXTUAL PRIVACY
these mobile services raise the issue of
"Whereby senders and receivers of
messages exchange info with
expectations of how it will be used.
The problem arises when the receiver
uses the information for a different
purpose than what was intended" (4)
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10. When it comes to spying on our phones,
government authorities can now get access to
data on everyone within a specific geographic
area around a cell tower through bulk access to
data held by mobile phone companies (5)
"THE CELL TOWER DUMP"
Government digital surveillance also infringes our privacy
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11.
privacy experts say
Canada must
Experts agree this privacy invasion must be adressed
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constrain the government'sl
acknowledge, and then
use of portable surveillance
devices that can
indiscriminately dredge data
from people’s smartphones
without them knowing,
(6)

12. "more than 90% of
Americans feel they
have lost control
over personal data"
(4)
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13. Hackers have become one of the most dangerous threats
on the internet
in 2012, 400 000 Yahoo email addresses were hacked (7)
in 2011, hackers stole 77 million Sony
Playstation Network passwords (8)
in 2015, 5 million Gmail passwords were
hacked and released online (9)
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14. Smart Homes are particularly vulnerable to hackers
"The stakes are mounting as "smart home" devices - connected by
increasingly ubiquitous Internet of Things technology and designed to
help consumers run their homes with ease - now come with a distinct
risk. They are being transformed into drones for security breaches." (10)
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15. "Health Hackers" are the new cybersecurity threat
"emerging medical technology is often ill-equipped to deal
with threats arising in an interconnected world."
there are simple flaws in medical devices that allow
hackers to penetrate them (4)
Insulin Pumps
have been hacked in demonstrations
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16. There are STEPS we
can take to improve
our CYBERSECURITY
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17. 90% of passwords generated by users are vulnerable to hacking
but there is a (11)
SIMPLE SOLUTION
Users can protect themselves by
regularly changing their passwords and
using different passwords for multiple
accounts (11)
Adding uppercase letters, numbers and
symbols to your password can
significantly reduce the vulnerability of a
password to hacking (11)
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18. Interoperability, in which one The Smart home requires
operating system network controls the entire home
Experts recommend installing multiple networks to separate computers and
phones from alarm and entertainment systems, to eliminate a single point of
failure and hacking risk (4)
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19. Why should we be concerned about our lack of
privacy and our public digital footprint?
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20. We live in a world where the Internet
records everything and forgets nothing
" every online photo, status update, Twitter post and blog entry by
and about us can be stored forever. Ill-advised photos and online
chatter are coming back to haunt people months or years after the
fact." (12)
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21. 31% of college admissions offices admitted to
visiting an applicant's Facebook or other
personal social media page to learn more about
them. 30% admitted they had discovered
information online that had negatively affected
an applicant's prospects. (13)
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22. It is not uncommon for employees to be fired
as a result of inappropriate posts they've
made on social media platforms
According to a study by Proofpoint, of companies with
1,000 or more employees, 8% of those companies have
dismissed someone for their behavior on sites like Facebook
and LinkedIn (14)
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The internet can be a dangerous place and cybersecurity
should not be taken lightly
As long as users use the internet responsibly and take the appropriate
steps to protect their digital privacy, there are many benefits of the
internet that can be enjoyed
SURF
RESPONSIBLY

24. Literature References
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7. Fox-­Brewster, Thomas. "Yahoo Admits 500 Million Hit In 2014 Breach". Forbes 2016. Web. 31
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8. Quin, Ben, and Charles Arthur. "Playstation Network Hackers Access Data Of 77 Million Users".
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25. 9. Siluk, Shirley. "5 Million Gmail Usernames, Passwords Stolen". Sci-­Tech Today 2014. Web. 31
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