Your Digital Footprint: Nebraska K-12 Digital Citizenship Symposium Karen Haase Harding & Shultz (402) 434-3000 khaase@hslegalfirm.com H & S School Law @KarenHaase
What’s a digital footprint? The trail, traces or "footprints" that people leave online. All on-line interactions leave traces of personal information about yourself available to others online.
Your digital footprint consists of: • Information you put up about yourself on blogs, social media, etc. • Comments you post about others • Comments others post about you • Explicit data from the interactions you have on every website • Implicit data or implied data such as IP address, who is ISP is, attention, location (physical and derived)
Who Cares?
Who Cares? • • • • •
Marketers Colleges Potential Employers Attorneys Creepers
Social Media is Here to Stay Ed. Professionals are using social media 85% of Americans use social media monthly Twitter grew over 500% in the last year More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than big 3 networks created in 60 years
What to do?
YOU need to manage your digital footprint (and help kids do the same) Managing your digital footprint is NOT hiding If you aren’t actively managing your digital footprint, then who is? Ask questions like:
Who am I? What do I stand for? What are my passions? Is what is online about me consistent with that?
Facebook Facebook dominates social media • 500 million users as of July, 2010 • 50% of active users log on daily • Average user has 130 friends • Largest group of users aged 35-54
Finkel v. Facebook (N.Y.) High school students created private Facebook page about classmate • Called her a “slut” • Said she had AIDs • Said she used drugs
She sued Facebook and kids who created page Facebook dismissed from lawsuit; students initially left in the case
Check Your Page
New Privacy Shortcuts
Timeline and Tagging
Cooks v. Tulsa Sch. Dist., et al Student changing after volleyball Teammates held down, took picture of her and posted to Twitter; others retweeted Family suing • • • •
Twitter School district Student who took pic Students who first tweeted the pic
Managing Twitter
Managing Twitter
Tumblr
Perfect 10 v. Tumblr Publisher suing Tumblr claiming that it: • failed to adequately deal with its takedown notices • Tumblr employees posted Perfect 10 content themselves "to help start the business.“ • Tumblr not entitled to DMCA protection
Managing Tumblr
Skype
Hope Witsell
Managing Skype
Snapchat
Snapchat  Photo messaging application.  Users can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients.  Users set a time limit for how long recipients can view their photos, up to 10 seconds, after which it will be deleted from the recipients device and the company's servers.
Managing Snapchat Very few tools Close supervision Not as private as users think
Kik Messenger
Kik Messenger Automatically ingests your contacts from your phone, then cross-references that against the Kik user database. Kik users are then pinged by the service with messages saying “You may know…,” with the user name of someone who matches a name in their contact list. Also cross matches against service like iFunny, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Managing Kik Messenger A privacy “bad guy” One of
Knowledge is Power
5 Things We Can Do
1.Talk to students/Take Control A 2006 Pew Internet report indicates there are two main classifications for digital footprints: passive and active. Do you want to deliberately be aware of and control what you stand for online or do you want that to be left to others? Adults need to help students establish a purposeful digital footprint.
2. Determine what your digital footprint says today Google yourself/your student Explore "Recap Apps.“ • Word clouds • status clouds • photo collages
3. Connect with others (and your kids digitally) Thinks active, not passive You use what they use Watch your child when s/he uses the internet Remember too that anytime your child engages online they are creating a piece of their digital footprint
Nothing is truly anonymous
Questions? (402) 499-0547 H & S School Law @KarenHaase