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Question 5: Digital Rights and Responsibilities

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DIGITAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Mobile Phones: Acceptable Use Policy Purpose: Due to the widespread ownership of mobile phones among young people and students requires that school staff, students, parents and carers take steps to ensure that mobile phones are used responsibly at school.  This Acceptable Use Policy is designed to ensure that potential issues involving mobile phones can be clearly identified and addressed, ensuring the benefits that mobile phones provide can be enjoyed by our students.  The following Acceptable Use Policy for mobile phones provides that school staff, students, parents and carers guidelines and instructions for the appropriate use of mobile phones during school hours.  The  Acceptable Use Policy for mobile phones also applies to students during school trips, residential and extra-curricular activities both on and off school site.   Students and their parents or carers must read and understand the Acceptable Use Policy as a condition
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Question 4: Digital Ettiquette

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Question 3: Digital Communication

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Q.3. THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT): Is the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles and is also referred to as "connected devices" and "smart devices", buildings, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data. This Phenomenon will affect businesses in South Africa by: 1. You’ll know where everything is at all times: Moat companies rely on barcode tracking systems for inventory management but when almost all your devices, equipment and products are integrated in the same network, tracking and inventory management it will become so intuitive that you might not even have time to think about it. Instantly updating numbers will be at your disposal at all times and you will have the ability to tap into those metrics at any time you want. 2. You’ll have to keep track of even more data: All those interconnected devices will open the floodgates to eve
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Q.2.3 Provide a few tips on how one can manage their digital footprint?

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HOW TO MANAGE YOUR DIGITAL FOOTPRINT: Here are some useful tips to help one manage their digital footprint: 1.      Be aware of what other people are saying about you online: You can adjust your account settings to have notifications sent to you when other people mention you, tag you, like, comment or share content on your feed. You can also enable approval rights when you are tagged in other people’s posts or photos, so they don’t automatically appear on your timeline unless you’ve reviewed and approved them.

 2.      Google yourself:  
 It may sound narcissistic but if strangers are going to do it, you should too! Search for your name every few months so you’re cognizant of the information others have access to.  

 
 3.      Be sure – get a second opinion on your profile pictures and text: Ask a work colleague or friend if they would do business with the person in your profile? If not, change it and ask again. 

 4. Protect your per
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Q.2.2 Digital footprints can be construed as trails that digital citizens leave online. Do you think that digital footprints could become a problem? Discuss.

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Q.2.2.1. DIGITAL FOOTPRINTS: A digital footprint is known as everything we do and say online creating a footprint of sorts. Someone may have already accessed, viewed or saved something that people think they may have delete from the Internet, social media sites, or any online mechanism, it does not mean it is gone. That means that just because you have deleted it, it does not mean it is gone. The person that accessed the information or image may have saved it and then decided to share it onwards. Our digital footprint creates the basis of our online reputation, a reputation that others may access to assess whether or not we are trustworthy, reliable, likeable, etc. One needs to be very careful with their online reputation, as it is just as important as their offline one.  
There are many cons of having a digital footprint here are some examples of harmful digital footprints;  1.      Identity Theft: Any photo that is publicly shared is fair game for identity thie
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