Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity
Who Holds Your Personal Data?
- Social media like Insta and TikTok
- Schools and educational institutions
- Online retailers and delivery services
- Banks and healthcare providers
These organisations store your data to provide services, maintain records, ensure legal compliance, and improve user experience.
Why Organisations Collect Your Data
- To communicate effectively, updates and reminders
- To personalize things for better experiences, safety, and research purposes
- This helps companies understand customer approaches and improve services.
Identity Theft
-When someone steals your personal data
- Used to commit fraud: open bank accounts, loans, purchases
- Can take months or years to recover
Prevention of Identity theft
- Use strong, unique passwords – Capital letter, Numbers and symbols
- Install an antivirus, VPN and enable firewalls
- Avoid clicking on suspicious links, or entering information on an unsecure website (indicated on the left of the search bar on chrome it’s a padlock)
Regularly monitor accounts for unusual activity
What is Copyright?
- Legal protection for creators of original work like music, books and art
- Begins automatically when the work is created
- Gives creators control over how their work is used
- It’s is backed by the law so going against it has consequences
Copyright Infringement vs Plagiarism
Copyright Infringement
- Illegal use without permission (e.g., pirated movies)
- Can result in fines or lawsuits
Plagiarism
- Copying and presenting others’ work as your own
- Academic or ethical violation
Both harm creators and are taken seriously.
Impacts and Artist Perspectives
- Artists can lose income and recognition
- Companies lose profits, jobs can be affected
- Example: Schools get fined after losing students data
“Good artists create, Bad artists steal” – Pablo Picasso
Respecting rights builds a fairer creative community.