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This module asks young people to consider that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Someone needs to pay for the internet to operate and so if you’re not a paying customer, it’s safe to assume you’re the product. Companies want as much valuable data about us as they can get, because they can sell it to advertisers. When we sign up for free services, we give them exactly what they want. Everything.
Privacy is valuable. The model we’re used to; a free, ad-based internet, means we swap our privacy for products, accounts and services but how high a price are we actually paying? This module asks children to connect with the priorities and motivations of the tech companies we trust with all the most detailed information about our lives.
We also look at the Edward Snowden revelations; what he found out; why he decided to tell the world and what he has given up to inform the public that our governments, too, may be tracking and stockpiling the most detailed data they can find on us, regardless of the fact we’re innocent of any crimes.
Google and Facebook charge us nothing for their products.
But are we paying the highest of prices for them: our freedom?
The terms and conditions are that we are watched, monitored, surveilled.
Government and business profit from our every move, word, search, like.
With our permission..
