Data sharing with third parties

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Quick Questions

Shade in the A or B circle for each question.

1. You sign up for a game app. An advertising company that you never signed up with receives some of your data. Who is the advertising company?

A A third party

B The first party you gave your data to

2. Which of these is an example of a third party that might receive your data?

A You, the person who typed in the data

B An analytics service that counts how people use an app

3. A privacy policy says: 'We may share your data with our partners.' What does this tell you?

A Other companies may receive your data

B Your data stays only with this company

4. Where is the best place to find out which third parties get your data from a website?

A In the website's colour scheme

B In its privacy policy

5. True or false: Once you give your data to one company, only that company can ever receive it.

A False, it may be shared with third parties

B True, data never leaves the first company

Match the Pairs

Draw a line connecting each item on the left to its match on the right.

Left column		Right column
1third party		A'Shared with partners' means your data is passed to other companies. It does not stay with the company you gave it to.
2We share your data with our partners		BThe app company may pass your data to other companies, such as advertisers or analytics services. Those companies are third parties.
3An advertiser can be a third party that receives your data to show you targeted ads		CA company other than the one you gave your data to, which may receive that data
4An analytics service can be a third party that receives data about how people use a website or app		DShared with: advertising partners
5Only the app company ever sees my data, so there are no third parties.		EShared with: analytics provider
6The policy says 'shared with partners', so my data stays private.		FOther companies may receive your data, so the policy is naming third parties

Definitions

third party

Fill in the Blanks

Complete each line of code by filling in the missing parts.

thirdParty = "advertiser" _______ thirdParty

dataShared = TRUE __ dataShared THEN DISPLAY "Sent to analytics service"

partners = ["advertiser", "analytics"] FOR ____ company IN partners DISPLAY company

recipient = "AdCo" IF recipient __ "ShopCo" THEN isThirdParty = TRUE

policy = "We share data with advertisers" IF policy ________ "advertisers" THEN DISPLAY "Third party named"

Spot the Error

Shade in the letter of the line that contains an error.

Question 1

A partners = ["AdCo", "Stats"]

B for p in partners:

C print("Shared with" p)

Question 2

A parties = ["AdCo", "Stats"]

B count = length(parties)

C print("Third parties:", count)

Question 3

A policy = "We share with ads"

B if "ads" in policy

C print("Advertiser found")

Question 4

A parties = ["AdCo", "Stats"

B print(parties[0])

C print(len(parties))

Question 5

A shared = {"AdCo": "ads"}

B shared["Stats"] = "analytics"

C print(shared["Stat"])

Answer Key

Data sharing with third parties

Section A: Quick Questions

A — A third party

B — An analytics service that counts how people use an app

A — Other companies may receive your data

B — In its privacy policy

A — False, it may be shared with third parties

Section B: Match the Pairs

third party → A company other than the one you gave your data to, which may receive that data

We share your data with our partners → Other companies may receive your data, so the policy is naming third parties

An advertiser can be a third party that receives your data to show you targeted ads → Shared with: advertising partners

An analytics service can be a third party that receives data about how people use a website or app → Shared with: analytics provider

Only the app company ever sees my data, so there are no third parties. → The app company may pass your data to other companies, such as advertisers or analytics services. Those companies are third parties.

The policy says 'shared with partners', so my data stays private. → 'Shared with partners' means your data is passed to other companies. It does not stay with the company you gave it to.

Section C: Definitions

third party — A company other than the one you gave your data to, such as an advertiser or analytics service, that may receive your data. Privacy policies often list them.

Section D: Fill in the Blanks

thirdParty = "advertiser"
DISPLAY thirdParty

dataShared = TRUE
IF dataShared THEN
    DISPLAY "Sent to analytics service"

partners = ["advertiser", "analytics"]
FOR EACH company IN partners
    DISPLAY company

recipient = "AdCo"
IF recipient != "ShopCo" THEN
    isThirdParty = TRUE

policy = "We share data with advertisers"
IF policy CONTAINS "advertisers" THEN
    DISPLAY "Third party named"

Section E: Spot the Error

C — A comma is missing between the text and the variable p. The line should be print("Shared with", p) so it lists each third party the data is shared with.

B — Python counts the items in a list with len(), not length(). The line should be count = len(parties).

B — An if statement needs a colon at the end. The line should be if "ads" in policy: so the program can check whether the policy mentions advertisers.

A — The list is missing its closing square bracket. The line should be parties = ["AdCo", "Stats"] so the list of third parties is complete.

C — The key "Stat" was never added to the dictionary, so this causes an error. The key must match exactly: print(shared["Stats"]) shows the analytics service.