Mechanics (3) & Additional resources

Mechanics

(3) Make a plan: Address the risks of the spaces that you are using

Using the Dream Spaces or Redesigned Spaces as examples, have the participants make plans for implementing this space online.

This would be most useful if they have active spaces they want to secure and safeguard.

Issues to consider here:

• Privacy settings on social media – is it enough? What are the limitation of available settings?
• Considering moving to non-commercial spaces – what are the barriers?
• Safer options for online communications – tools that offer encryption by default.

Consideration	Platform or Space	How will you address this
Who can see what	Twitter (this is an example)	Review my privacy settings; consider content that I post, respond to, like, and the default privacy settings on different types of content; reduce the number people I'm linked to; prohibit tagging
Do you know everyone you're linked to		review my connections; remove connections to people I do not know;
Do you want to use your real name; anonymity and how hard it is		use a pseudonym; prevent others from naming you with your real name
Do you want to share your location		No, I do not want to automatically share my location; turn off location services; limit photo posts showing my location

Authorisation

Consideration	Platform or Space	How will you address this
Ensuring that I am logging out	f-book	do not save password in browser; review setting on f-book for automatic logout
2-factor on accounts and devices		set up 2-factor to be more certain that only I am logging in
Shared accounts		review who has access to shared accounts; review password policies on these accounts

Devices

Consideration	Platform or Space	How will you address this
Device-level safety	Twitter or any app	do not automatically log in to any apps or through browsers
Do I want notifications to show on my devices		turn off audio and visual notifications

Group Administration

If you are working with a group to implement a space online, use the following table of questions and work through the answers, finding the appropriate settings on the platform you are using to implement the group's preferences.

Example design/implementation table:

Link to Group or Personal Page	https://www.facebook.com/APCNews	What are you doing to implement this?
Who can see this space?	anyone on the internet	our group is public on Facebook and searchable on the web
Who is this space for?	APC members, community and potential APC members	we invite APC staff and network members to join, mention them in posts, invite them to events posted through this page
Who is it not for?	APC members, community and potential APC members	closed/public - we limit who can post, but make the page findable on facebook and through web searches
What kinds of things do people do in this space?	notifications about APC work and links to APC network content published elsewhere
Who can create content in this space? What kind of content?	staff and members	-
How do you want to communicate the rules of the space?	on our group's about page	we will write our rules based on this chart of questions and answers and post it on our about page

Well-being Note: Bringing up risk and technology concepts might cause participants stress. Be aware of this. Pause for a breathing exercise. Or allow participants to take a walk around the venue to decompress when they need to.

Additional resources

• If you want to spend more time discussing tools and choices, there are a lot of great resources here: https://myshadow.org/.
• How to Increase Your Privacy on Twitter
• Security in a Box: Social networking
• Security in a Box: Keep your online communication private
• Create and maintain secure passwords

Go back to this activity's main module (Creating Safe Online Spaces)