🕵️ Worksheet: Privacy and your digital footprint

1. Mark ✅ or ❌

1. Set your social media accounts to private.
2. Don't share photos of your ID card, passport or bank cards.
3. Check your app permissions every few months.
4. Think before you post – use the “grandma test”.
5. Don't share your “live” location with people you don't know in person.
6. Don't post your address, school, class or daily routine.
7. Turn off location in your camera and when you share photos.
8. Don't believe that “disappearing” messages really disappear.

2. Choose the correct answer

1. Which of these is safe to post publicly?

   • A) A photo of your ID card
   • B) A photo of a landscape with no location
   • C) Your bus timetable
   • D) Your home address

2. What can be hidden inside a photo file?

   • A) Nothing but the photo
   • B) The date, the phone model and sometimes GPS coordinates
   • C) Only the colours
   • D) Your phone's password

3. You deleted a post after an hour. Has it gone for good?

   • A) Yes, always
   • B) Not necessarily – someone might have saved it or taken a screenshot
   • C) Yes, if you delete it twice
   • D) Yes, if it was a video

3. Think and write

1. Write three pieces of information you should never share online.

2. What is a digital footprint? Write or draw an example.

3. Read the post: “At the park near my school today, like every Tuesday at 4!” What does it give away?

4. Write the steps to make a profile private in an app you know.

5. Why should you ask before posting a photo of someone else?

6. Which permissions would you give a game app, and which not? Explain.

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