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e-safety - safeguarding personal information
- A guide for all staff who use Facebook
YHGfL have produced this short guide on using Facebook safely for all staff. This guidance is particularly appropriate for anyone who works with young people. The aim of the guide is to help professionals understand how to set some of the privacy settings and other settings within Facebook appropriately to help protect their personal information.
- Beating the Cyberbullies - guidance for teachers from the NUT - this can be obtained from the Teachers Support Network - search for Cyberbullying
- Keeping your information personal on social networking sites - from the ICO Information Commissioners Office
Helpful Information on how to use Social Networking sites safely and how to protect your personal information.
- Sorted
This web site produced by Childnet is designed by young people for young people. It aims to give advice and information on computer security issues in a practical and simple way. It covers all the different ways of keeping information safe, including straightforward explanations of how each technology works.
- Teach Today : making sense of Technology
In this section of TeachToday you can find helpful information on all aspects of keeping your personal information safe when working online
- Young People Safe On-line
This resource for teachers parents and pupils has been created by Microsoft and MSN in conjunction, together with Childnet International, NSPCC, Child line and others. There are links to teaching resources, including presenter notes and lesson plans for the Know it all materials. There are also links to resources created for children and for parents.
- Get Safe On-line
Get Safe Online, the UK's first national Internet Security Awareness Campaign, is a joint initiative between the government, the National High-Tech Crime Unit and private sector sponsors. this section covers protecting your personal information when using social networking sites such as My Space, Beebo and Facebook.
Get Safe Online also covers how to Blog safely
- Stay Safe online
This site provides free and non-technical cyber security and safety resources to the public, so consumers, small businesses and educators have the know how to avoid cyber crime. It includes a useful section on protecting your information online.
- Protect Personal Information
This site from Microsoft has very helpful information about protecting your-self online
- Guidance from Greater Manchester Police
This site has a number of helpful sections covering email scams, safe use of online auctions, computer security and personal information security.
