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Online Safety Skills: privacy and accounts

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What you'll be able to do
  • Audit all your accounts, rank them by risk, and give the important ones the strongest protection.
  • Choose the right kind of multi-factor authentication and set up a way back in if you are locked out.
  • Review privacy settings, app permissions and device settings on a regular schedule.
  • Limit the data that apps, ads and websites collect about you, and protect other people's privacy too.
  • Follow clear steps after a data breach, identity fraud or sextortion (with Canadian examples), and know the help lines in your country.

Before this course: Online Safety & Digital Citizenship (course 13.15). You already know how to make a passphrase (four or more random words, at least 15 characters), why to use a password manager and MFA, how to spot phishing, why updates and backups matter, how to check facts, and where to get help for cyberbullying. Here you turn those habits into a system you can check and repeat.

This course is defensive only: it is about protecting yourself and getting help. The rules and services in the lessons use Canada as the example. Some lessons have an In your country box for other countries. If your country is not listed there, check your own country's official resources. If you are in danger right now, call your local emergency number (9-1-1 in Canada; see the In your country box in lesson 7).

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Audit your accounts

In simple words

Think of your accounts as the doors of a house. Some doors lead to a closet. Some lead to the room with all your treasure. You can't guard doors you've forgotten you have. So first, walk around and count them, then put the best lock on the treasure doors.

Key facts
  • Course 13.15 said: use a different passphrase for every account, store them in a password manager, and turn on MFA. An audit is how you check that you really did it everywhere.
  • Your email account is the master key. Many other accounts send "reset your password" links to it, so whoever controls your email can often reach many other accounts. (This is a common-sense reason to protect email first, not a statistic.)
  • Rank accounts by what a thief could do with them:
Risk levelExamplesWhat it needs
HighEmail, banking, school or work accounts, main social media, app store account, password managerUnique passphrase plus MFA, no exceptions
MediumShopping, games, streaming, cloud storage with photosUnique passphrase plus MFA if offered
LowOld forums, one-time sign-upsUnique passphrase, or close the account
  • Get Cyber Safe says to turn on multi-factor authentication whenever a website, app or device offers it.
  • Close accounts you no longer use. An old account you forgot about is a door nobody is watching. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) also advises unlinking apps from your accounts when you stop using them and deleting unused apps.
Step by step
  1. Open your password manager, or your browser's saved passwords, and list every account you can find. Add any you remember that are not saved.
  2. Write each one in a simple table: account name, risk level (high, medium, low), unique passphrase (yes or no), MFA (yes or no).
  3. Start with your email. Make sure it has a unique passphrase and MFA on.
  4. Fix every "high" account that has a "no" in either column.
  5. For each "low" account you no longer use, find the account settings and close or delete it.
  6. Do not write your passphrases in the table.
  7. Check: every high-risk account has "yes" in both columns, and you have closed at least one old account.
Watch on YouTube
Get Cyber Safe: We Wish You'd Use Strong PasswordsCommunications Security Establishment · YouTube · youtube.com

Videos by other creators on YouTube, for reference. They are not made by or affiliated with The Future Market.

LESSON 01Audit your accounts
LESSON 01 / ANIMATED LESSON / AI VOICE00:00 / 01:00
Read the video script
[Host] "How many accounts do you have? Most people guess too low."
[Screen: a table of accounts with risk levels] "List them. Rank them. High, medium, low."
[Text on screen: Email = the master key] "Email first. Reset links go there, so protect it most."
[Screen: a Delete account button] "Old accounts you don't use? Close them. Fewer doors, fewer problems."
Try it now

Build your account table today. Fix the weakest high-risk account and close one account you no longer use.

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I'm learning "Online Safety Skills: privacy and accounts" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Audit your accounts".

What the lesson teaches:
- Course 13.15 said: use a different passphrase for every account, store them in a password manager, and turn on MFA. An audit is how you check that you really did it everywhere.
- Your email account is the master key. Many other accounts send "reset your password" links to it, so whoever controls your email can often reach many other accounts. (This is a common-sense reason to protect email first, not a statistic.)
- Rank accounts by what a thief could do with them:
- Risk level - Examples - What it needs
- High - Email, banking, school or work accounts, main social media, app store account, password manager - Unique passphrase plus MFA, no exceptions
- Medium - Shopping, games, streaming, cloud storage with photos - Unique passphrase plus MFA if offered
- Low - Old forums, one-time sign-ups - Unique passphrase, or close the account

The exercise I'm working on:
Build your account table today. Fix the weakest high-risk account and close one account you no longer use.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.
I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Audit your accounts" from the course "Online Safety Skills: privacy and accounts".

Here's what the lesson says:
Think of your accounts as the doors of a house. Some doors lead to a closet. Some lead to the room with all your treasure. You can't guard doors you've forgotten you have. So first, walk around and count them, then put the best lock on the treasure doors.

The activity:
Build your account table today. Fix the weakest high-risk account and close one account you no longer use.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.
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Better multi-factor authentication and a way back in

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03

Privacy settings audit

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04

Devices, app permissions and public Wi-Fi

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05

Your data, ads and other people's privacy

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06

When something goes wrong: breaches and identity fraud

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07

Sextortion and intimate images: how to stay safe and where to get help

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Final project

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Quiz

  1. Why protect your email account first?

  2. What are the three kinds of factors Get Cyber Safe describes?

  3. Why are two passwords not MFA?

  4. What are recovery options for?

  5. Name two social media settings to change before you post.

  6. Does private (incognito) mode hide your activity from your internet provider?

  7. What does Get Cyber Safe advise about public Wi-Fi?

  8. After a data breach, what can you ask the credit bureaus to do?

  9. Where should you report online fraud?

  10. If someone threatens to share your private picture unless you pay, what should you do?

  11. Where can a young person in distress get help?

  12. Whose privacy should you think about before posting a photo of friends?

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Final exam

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Certificate

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