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Students explore a variety of tools that can help to protect their online privacy1 Give the students the following instructions (see the following pages for these instructions).Your teacher will give you a group letter: A, B or C. Join your group. Your teacher will send you instructions for your group. You will be exploring different ways of protecting your online privacy. When you have received your instructions, you will have 15 minutes to do your research. Decide first, as a group, how you want to do the research. You could, for example, divide up the work with some students working on one task, and others working on another. If you take this approach, you will need at least 5 minutes at the end to share what you have learnt between the group members. Alternatively, you could work through each task together.By the end of this activity, every member of the group needs to be able to share what you have learnt with other groups.If you have more time than you need, tell your teacher, who will give you an extra task.2 New group taskRearrange the groups so that each group now has at least one member from the previous A, B and C groups. Ask the students to share what they have learnt in the previous activity, and then to discuss the following questions.Which of these tools best helps you to protect your online privacy? Do / Would you use these tools yourself?3 DiscussionWrap up with a whole class discussion. This might lead to a vote about which of the tools is the most / least useful.INSTRUCTIONS FOR TASK 1GROUP ABrowsing1 How does private browsing help to protect your privacy? What does private browsing not protect you against? Find out more at 2 Check that you know how to activate private browsing on the device that you use.Incognito mode for Chrome InPrivate mode for Microsoft EdgePrivate Browsing for Mozilla FirefoxPrivate Window for Safari3 What is Tor? How can it protect your privacy? Why is it illegal in some countries? Why might Tor restrict what you can do on the net?Find out more at (anonymity_network) GROUP BSearch engines1 Which search engine do you use most often (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Bing, etc.)? What information about you does the search engine store?Find out more at 439102574295002 How is DuckDuckGo better than most other search engines in terms of privacy? Find out more at 3 Compare DuckDuckGo with your usual search engine. Enter a phrase (you could try “internet privacy”, for example) and compare the results. Is there a big difference in the quality of the results?GROUP C43383208255000Ad trackers and blocking cookies 1 Find out what Privacy Badger and Ghostery are.4659630467995002 Choose either Privacy Badger or Ghostery . Download and install on your device. Then, visit four or five of your favourite websites. Use Privacy Badger or Ghostery to find out how many ad trackers are found on these sites.EXTRA OPTIONAL RESEARCHProtest action1 Find out what the following extension tools do.Ad Nauseam Track Me Not Teacher’s notes for task 1Group A: BrowsingQ1 When you use private browsing, your browsing history is not saved and cookies are cleared at the end of the session. The greatest value of private browsing is to stop someone else who is using your device discover information about you, but private browsers won’t always stop other websites or your ISP from following you around the net.Q3 Tor is free software that makes it difficult to connect a particular user to their internet activity by hiding their location. It is illegal in some countries where the authorities want to stop people from communicating anonymously. Some web sites will also block users who are using Tor.Group B: Search enginesQ1 Most search engines collect quite a wide variety of information about users, including the IP address, their search history, which sites they click on, their location, etc. This data is used to deliver personalized adverts and to improve the results that the search engine provides.Q3 DuckDuckGo does not collect information about like your IP address or search history. It offers more privacy than using ‘private browsing’ on your browser. It does not create a digital profile of the user based on search history, age, gender, IP address or browser cookies. However, if you use DuckDuckGo with a browser like Chrome, Edge or Safari, personal information will be stored by the browser. Group C: Blocking cookies and ad trackersQ1 Ghostery and Privacy Badger are add-ons to a browser that can be freely downloaded. They allow users to see the cookies that are found on websites, and to switch these on or off. When ad trackers are switched off, it is much harder for advertisers to follow users around the web. Optional extra research: Protest actionQ1 Ad Nauseam clicks on every ad that is blocked, registering a visit on the databases of ad networks. This means that the data that is collected is junk so that ad trackers no longer serve any purpose. Track Me Not is similar in some ways to Ad Nauseam. It issues random search queries to popular search engines and this means that your real search history is hidden in random information. Neither of these extensions is a very secure way of ensuring privacy, unless combined with other tactics. However, they have become popular as a form of protest, and they cost advertisers large amounts of money. Unsurprisingly, they are not popular with companies like Google. ................
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