My Data: Whose Is It and Who Sees It?

1. What your child learns and why

Your child practises asking “Who will see this, and do I need to give it?” before allowing access. They can pause, say no and ask a grown-up. The simulation uses only fictional camera, location and contact requests.

2. Three questions for dinner

• Who would see the drawing in the fictional gallery?
• Which request could you leave for later, and why?
• What would you ask a grown-up to check with you?

3. 10 minutes together, no screen

Draw circles: me — family — class — everyone. Draw an imaginary flower without names or personal notes. Let your child place it in a circle and explain why. Move it and discuss how the audience changes. Finish by choosing: “Before I give data, I ask: ...” Keep the drawing on paper.

4. What success looks like

Your child names an audience, explains whether access is needed, and can choose to wait or ask. This is practice, not a test.

5. Common difficulties

“Allow means everyone sees everything?” Separate access from sharing: read both explanations together. “I already pressed it?” Stay calm and review the settings together; do not ask for real data during this activity.

6. Safety and a note for adults

Use fictional examples. A real settings change belongs with a grown-up. Say: “If something scares you, tell a grown-up you trust.”

S1: personal data is information relating to an identified or identifiable living person. In plain words, individuals can ask what an organisation holds and how it is used, ask to see it, correct it or delete it; ask to limit its use, receive it in a transferable form, object to its use, and ask about safeguards for automated decisions and profiling. This is a general overview, not a promise that every request is granted.

S1 · European Commission: Data protection explained · facts paraphrased; source rights retained.

7. Where to go next

Before: DB-IB-12 “A Fake Message: Who Is Writing to Me?” · Next: DB-IB-14 “Together in One Document: Roles and Rules”

You do not need to know the answers. Say: “Let’s find out together.”