How to improve privacy online – you tell us!
Last week, when we launched this site, we invited four students from Vanier Collegiate in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to talk to Canada’s privacy commissioners about their online activities and their concerns with online privacy. At the end of the discussion, they shared with commissioners their own ideas on how to improve privacy online:
- Make consent forms and privacy policies for websites easier to read and understand.
- Introduce a law that would protect kids from having their privacy exploited by companies.
- Educate kids, their parents and their teachers so they better understand how their privacy can be compromised on the Internet and what they can do to prevent it from happening.
What recommendations would you want to pass along?
June 15th, 2008 at 1:41 am
The thing about this whole affair is that, despite privacy being the main concern, nothing about this site touches on other matters of exploitation.
It seems to me that this site is caught in between two themes: “Privacy” and “Web safety”. I would just go down the web safety in general instead of covering just privacy.
This doesn’t feel like a social networking site either. It just has that “governmental” feel. Everything seems too non-spontaneous (comments need to be approved before passing through, we can’t actually post blogs and whatnot unless we forward them through the site admins which, ironically, is really bad for privacy)
Posting on this site feels like more work than it should be… it’s not fun (the base of the problem). I sure don’t like feeling like a social experiment, yet I offer up these comments in hopes that you’ll read them, listen to them, and make changes so this website is appealing to youth.