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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 — Privacy Principles and Digital Footprints

The law on personal data, and managing your own trail.

Modules (59)

1 Right to privacy and security online 2 Personal data 3 Sensitive information 4 Personal data stored in online accounts 5 Digital footprint 6 Active and passive digital footprints 7 Permanence of digital footprints 8 Cookies and trackers 9 Metadata and location in photos 10 App permissions on a device 11 Privacy Act 1988 (Cwlth) 12 Who must follow the Privacy Act: APP entities 13 What the Australian Privacy Principles are 14 The 13 APPs grouped by stage of the data lifecycle 15 Consent when collecting personal data 16 Australian Privacy Principle 1 17 APP 2: anonymity and pseudonymity 18 APP 3: collecting only what is reasonably necessary 19 APP 4: dealing with unsolicited personal information 20 APP 5: notifying people when collecting data 21 Australian Privacy Principle 6 22 Holding information only for its primary purpose 23 APP 7: direct marketing 24 APP 8: sending personal data overseas 25 APP 9: adoption, use or disclosure of government related identifiers 26 APP 10: quality of personal information 27 Australian Privacy Principle 11 28 APP 12 and 13: access to and correction of personal information 29 The OAIC and making a privacy complaint 30 Implications of the APPs for organisations and individuals 31 Reading a privacy policy 32 Auditing the data an existing system collects 33 Judging whether collected data is essential 34 Critiquing a system against the Australian Privacy Principles 35 Reducing the data a form collects 36 Collecting only the data you need 37 Anonymising data 38 De-identifying survey and interview data with participant codes 39 Filtering data 40 Depersonalising a spreadsheet by removing identifying columns 41 Privacy by design for a student solution 42 Privacy check for a data project 43 Critiquing a student solution's digital footprint against the APPs 44 Managing and reducing your digital footprint 45 Security measures to protect personal information 46 Confidentiality 47 User permissions: read, write and execute 48 Multi-factor authentication 49 Encrypting data at rest and in transit 50 Unique passphrase for each account 51 Password manager 52 Data breach 53 Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017 54 Eligible data breach and serious harm (ss 26WE, 26WF) 55 Applying the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme to a scenario 56 Ethical issue: lack of transparency 57 Ethical issue: misuse of personal data and information 58 Ethical issue: repurposing and sharing of data by AI systems 59 Analysing an ethical issue in a data scenario

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VCE Cyber Security Crossword: ISM guideline: confidentiality and integrity of wireless traffic and more (Modules 61–74) 10 clues · ISM guideline: confidentiality and integrity of wireless traffic, ISM guideline: wireless network footprint, Privacy Act 1988 (Cwlth), Australian Privacy Principle 1 and more
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VCE Cyber Security Word Search: Software malware updates to Information Privacy Principle 5 (Modules 41–74) 22 words to find · Software malware updates, Staff procedures, Encryption and decryption, Caesar cipher and more
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Issues in Technology Crossword: Is AI using too much power? and more (Part 1 of 2) 10 clues · Is AI using too much power?, How does an AI actually work?, Compression - losing quality or saving space?, Why file size matters and more
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Issues in Technology Word Search: Is AI using too much power? to What is RADCAB? (All modules) 22 words to find · Is AI using too much power?, How does an AI actually work?, Compression - losing quality or saving space?, Why file size matters and more
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Years 5–6 Digital Systems Crossword: Data and networks and Accounts, passphrases and security (Modules 41–52) 10 clues · Strong passwords, Passphrase, Risks of password re-use, Unique passphrase for each account and more
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Years 5–6 Digital Systems Word Search: Data and networks and Accounts, passphrases and security (Modules 21–52) 20 words to find · Data transmission, Wired transmission, Wireless transmission, Bluetooth for short-range transfer and more
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Years 5–6 Data & Information Crossword: Data, information and binary representation and Acquiring and manipulating data (Modules 11–20) 10 clues · Representing images with pixels, Primary and secondary data sources, Collecting data with a survey, Spreadsheet rows, columns and cells and more
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Years 5–6 Data & Information Crossword: Analysing and visualising data and Digital footprint and privacy (Modules 31–56) 10 clues · Choosing the right chart, Column and bar charts, Line charts, Pie charts and more
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Years 5–6 Data & Information Word Search: Data, information and binary representation and Acquiring and manipulating data (Modules 1–20) 20 words to find · Data and information, Types of data: numbers and text, Types of data: images, sound and video, Same data, different representations and more
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Years 5–6 Data & Information Word Search: Acquiring and manipulating data to Digital footprint and privacy (Modules 21–56) 20 words to find · Cleaning data, Formulas start with =, Arithmetic operators + - * /, The SUM function and more
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Years 7–8 Digital Systems Crossword: Data transmission and network security and Account security and cyber threats (Modules 26–74) 10 clues · Comparing wired and wireless networks, Wi-Fi range and interference, HTTPS and the padlock, Securing a Wi-Fi network and more
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Years 7–8 Digital Systems Word Search: Hardware for particular tasks to Account security and cyber threats (Modules 4–74) 20 words to find · CPU clock speed (GHz), CPU cores, HDD vs SSD performance, Storage units: KB, MB, GB, TB and more
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Years 9–10 Digital Systems Crossword: Controlling and securing access to data (Modules 13–24) 10 clues · Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Authentication vs authorisation and more
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Years 9–10 Digital Systems Word Search: Controlling and securing access to data and Threats and software vulnerabilities (Modules 13–40) 20 words to find · Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Authentication vs authorisation and more
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VCE Data Analysis Crossword: Data types and data characteristics to Privacy and the Australian Privacy Principles (Modules 25–37) 10 clues · Characteristic of data: accessibility, Characteristic of information: clarity, Characteristic of information: context, Data quality: accuracy and more
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VCE Data Analysis Crossword: Privacy and the Australian Privacy Principles and Ethics and APA referencing (Modules 38–54) 10 clues · APP 2: anonymity and pseudonymity, Holding information only for its primary purpose, Security measures to protect personal information, Critiquing a system against the Australian Privacy Principles and more
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VCE Data Analysis Word Search: Data types and data characteristics to Ethics and APA referencing (Modules 25–54) 20 words to find · Characteristic of data: accessibility, Characteristic of information: clarity, Characteristic of information: context, Data quality: accuracy and more
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VCE Software Development U3O2 Crossword: Analytical tools and the software requirements specification and Legal requirements for copyright, ownership and privacy (Modules 52–71) 10 clues · Purpose of a software requirements specification (SRS), SRS content: requirements, constraints and scope, SRS content: user characteristics and technical environment, SRS content: analytical tools depicting existing systems and more
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VCE Software Development U3O2 Word Search: Analytical tools and the software requirements specification to Ideation and evaluating design ideas (Modules 52–85) 20 words to find · Purpose of a software requirements specification (SRS), SRS content: requirements, constraints and scope, SRS content: user characteristics and technical environment, SRS content: analytical tools depicting existing systems and more
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VCE Software Development U4O2 Crossword: Security controls for development practices and stored data and Threat modelling and evaluating security practices (Modules 49–72) 10 clues · Code repositories, Securing a code repository, Encrypting data at rest and in transit, Peer code review process and more
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VCE Software Development U4O2 Word Search: Security controls for development practices and stored data to Mitigation and improving secure development practices (Modules 49–130) 20 words to find · Code repositories, Securing a code repository, Encrypting data at rest and in transit, Peer code review process and more
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VCE Data Analytics U3O2 Crossword: Data integrity to Evaluating designs and design tools (Modules 76–146) 10 clues · Data integrity: reasonableness, Data integrity: timeliness, Participant information statement, Consent form and more
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VCE Data Analytics U3O2 Word Search: Research questions and project planning to Evaluating designs and design tools (Modules 3–146) 21 words to find · What a research question is, Research question feature: clarity, Research question feature: measurability of data requirements, Research question feature: feasibility and more
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VCE Data Analytics U4O2 Crossword: Disaster recovery plans to Victorian privacy and health records legislation (Modules 80–113) 10 clues · Disaster recovery plan feature: evacuation, Backup storage locations and the 3-2-1 rule, Disaster recovery plan feature: restoration, Disaster recovery plan feature: communication and more
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VCE Data Analytics U4O2 Crossword: Victorian privacy and health records legislation to Emerging trends in cyber security (Modules 115–134) 10 clues · Comparing the three privacy laws, Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017, Eligible data breach and serious harm (ss 26WE, 26WF), Assessing a suspected breach (s 26WH) and more
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VCE Data Analytics U4O2 Word Search: Evaluating security with CIA and security controls to Victorian privacy and health records legislation (Modules 44–113) 21 words to find · Adaptive (risk-based) authentication, Physical security controls, Data loss prevention controls, Protecting data at rest and more
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VCE Data Analytics U4O2 Word Search: Victorian privacy and health records legislation to Ethical issues and case-study analysis (Modules 115–150) 21 words to find · Comparing the three privacy laws, Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017, Eligible data breach and serious harm (ss 26WE, 26WF), Assessing a suspected breach (s 26WH) and more
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Years 7–8 Data & Information Crossword: Sharing online and managing projects and Digital footprint and privacy (Modules 100–124) 10 clues · Tracking task progress, Roles and responsibilities in a team project, The iterative cycle: create, test, improve, Cookies and trackers and more
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Years 7–8 Data & Information Word Search: Using digital tools and conventions to Digital footprint and privacy (Modules 87–124) 20 words to find · Applying heading and style conventions in a document, Adding alt text to images, Choosing a file format for sharing content, Sharing a file online with permissions and more
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Years 9–10 Data & Information Crossword: Interactive content with emerging tools to Data privacy and the Australian Privacy Principles (Modules 83–132) 10 clues · Emerging digital tools, Selecting a tool for an audience and purpose, Embedding audio and video with HTML, Navigation and hotspots in interactive content and more
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Years 9–10 Data & Information Word Search: Data compression to Data privacy and the Australian Privacy Principles (Modules 6–132) 21 words to find · Redundancy: repeated data that can be shortened, Lossless compression, Lossy compression, Run-length encoding: encoding text and more
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Crossword: Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities and Privacy Principles and Digital Footprints (Modules 876–944) 10 clues · Brute-forcing a Caesar cipher in Python, Vigenere cipher in Python, The XOR cipher, Base64 is encoding, not encryption and more
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Word Search: Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities and Privacy Principles and Digital Footprints (Modules 860–944) 20 words to find · Frequency analysis, Transposition cipher: rail fence, CODE and CHAR functions in a spreadsheet, The MOD function in a spreadsheet and more

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