Personal Privacy Challenge

To earn the Personal Privacy achievement please complete the following assignment (click the Submit button on the right). After the assignment deadline you will receive notifications asking you to complete two peer reviews. 

Choose one social media you commonly use (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc). Read the privacy policy for this site, and then examine your own privacy settings on this site.

For example, here is a quick guide on Facebook settings (Links to an external site.):

Next, read how to understand a privacy policy. Please again see Fact Sheet 35 (Links to an external site.) and go to Step 8 “Reading a Privacy Policy.” Notice, for example, that the most important parts of a privacy policy often appear towards the end – when most of us have stopped reading – if we even bothered to start.

Now return to your own social media site of choice. Write a short analysis of your privacy settings, and the implications for those settings.

Optional Activity: Share what you found out about your privacy settings in the Discussion Forums.