Jules NIZEYIMANA
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Jules NIZEYIMANA
A safer global Internet starts with you. Learn the fundamentals of online safety with this learning track from keeping yourself safe online to ways that all members of society are responsible for upholding privacy- and security-enhancing best practices.
You will take four courses: Encryption, Digital Footprints, Privacy, and Internet Security.
You must complete all four courses to receive your Online Safety Professional certificate.
Skills / Knowledge
- Identify what the benefits and costs of the digital footprints that you leave behind are
- Identify what a digital footprint means
- Articulate the significance of big digital footprints and why they’re important
- Explain the economic bargain for internet users
- Determine whether digital footprints pose a problem
- Identify if and how different devices make digital footprints
- Learn if you can manage your digital footprint and how
- Find out who is tracking you and how it’s done
- Identify what is involved in the world of digital footprints
- Learn how legislation affects digital footprints
- How to relate online privacy to our understanding of privacy in the real world
- How to identify the legal and procedural protections that apply to the collection of personal data
- How to use ethical principles to develop good practice in personal data processing
- How to identify the privacy risks that arise from the digital world, and available countermeasures
- Describe encryption concepts at a high level, and the benefits encryption offers to us individually and as a society
- Find out why it is important, and the ways in which we rely upon strong encryption in our daily lives
- Understand how and why efforts to weaken encryption pose a serious threat
- Learn about various “backdoor access” proposals and why they are problematic
- Learn about the Internet Society’s goals and activities related to supporting strong encryption and defending against threats to it
- Discover what actions you can take to advocate for strong encryption in your community and beyond
Issued on
January 11, 2024
Expires on
Does not expire