Data Security

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Learning Outcomes

By the end of this lab, you will be able to:

• Identify personal information about you that is publicly available or exposed in data breaches
• Explain what your browser and logged-in accounts reveal about you
• Apply privacy protections, and explain why you chose them
• Recommend a privacy protection to someone else, and explain why

Lab Instructions

Disclaimer: You must try each of the websites in this lab, but you do not need to share real personal information. You can choose to enter false data into the websites, generalize your answers, or blur out any personal information in your screenshots that you do not wish to share.

Personal Data

1. Go to Link: https://aboutmyinfo.org/identity and see how unique your data is.
   1. How unique are you?
   2. Are you easy to identify?
   3. Take a screenshot of your result.
2. Other information about you
   1. What other information do you think might be available about you?
   2. Try Googling yourself. What pops up? Give some examples.
3. Go to Link: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and check an email address or phone number.
   1. Have you been pwned?
   2. If yes, in which breaches?
   3. Take a screenshot of your result. Blur out any personal information you do not wish to share.
4. Go to Link: https://robinlinus.github.io/socialmedia-leak/
   1. What social media are you logged in to?
   2. Did you realize you were logged in to each of them?
   3. Do you know how to log out of each?
5. Go to Link: https://webkay.robinlinus.com/
   1. What did it show about your browser?
   2. Did you realize how much information you were sharing?
   3. Was any of it surprising? If yes, which ones?

How to protect your data

1. Go to Link: https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/66-ways-to-protect-your-privacy-right-now-a7383217267/ and pick 3 things to try out right now to help protect your privacy.
   1. What did you pick?
   2. Why did you pick each one?
   3. Did you try each one? How did it go?
2. Pick one from the above article and share it with someone in your life.
   1. What did you pick?
   2. Who did you share it with?
   3. Why?

Deliverables

One document, clearly labelled, that includes:

1. All the answers to the Personal Data questions
2. Your answers on how to protect your data
3. Your screenshots: your aboutmyinfo result and your Have I Been Pwned result, with any personal information blurred out if you choose

Resources

References, a video, a PowerPoint and some notes are available at my website Link: https://www.aholdengouveia.name/IntroData/datasecurity.html