1. Who owns the photos taken by the girl in the video?
The girl owns the photo.
2. What do you understand by the term ‘Digital Footprint’?
A digital footprint is the size of an individual’s online presence; as it relates to the number of individuals they interact with.
3. What implications does it have?
Digital footprints are not a digital identity or passport, but the meta data collected impacts upon internet privacy, trust, security, digital reputation, and recommendation. Digital footprints are notorious in that privacy and openness are in competition.
While a digital footprint can be used to infer personal information without their knowledge, it also exposes individuals’ private psychological sphere into the social sphere.
4. Should employers have access to your life on line?
No, because an employee’s private life should not affect their work life.
5. Take a look at your own Facebook area. Would you be happy for classmates to see it? Staff? Your project supervisor (who may write you a reference). A future employer? Your parents? Your grandmother? What if things you put up there today followed you forever?
I would not be happy for my grandmother or my parents to see it, but this is a non issue as neither knows how to operate Facebook. I have no problem in having classmates see it. I am less enthused about having my future employer seeing it, because while ones private life should be kept separate from their work life, some employers may judge even when they shouldn’t.
6. How about parents. Do they have the right to put up ‘cute’ photos of their children when that image might be associated with their child forever?
Yes
7. Why is it so important that teenagers understand the digital footprint?
It is important because they need to realise the consequences of having their personal pictures end up in the wrong hands.
8. The girl in the video wants to blame someone. Think about what happened. Identify the things that were done that weren’t acceptable and explain why they were unacceptable.
The fact that her boyfriend sent her picture to his friends was unacceptable because those pictures were only intended for him and he shouldn’t have sent out those pictures without her permission. However she is in part to blame as well because she should not have trusted him.
9. Is it ok to forward mail without permission?
No. You should ask permission from the email sender.
10. Is it ok to forward photos without permission?
No. You should ask permission from the person that took the photo
The problem is that some employers might have a reputation that could be affected by what an employee does. For example, if you worked for the Vegetarian Society they might not be pleased if you ate beef burgers at the weekend! They might want to employ someone who had the same beliefs as they did.
ReplyDeleteYou have thought about this though and it shows.