addresses, phone numbers and photos, audio or video. In addition, 62% of sites admitted they may show that personal information to third parties. An other 62% allowed the user to be redirected to a different site, and only 28% of the sites and apps involved any form of parental control or protection.
A member of the team Tobi Cohen, outlined a few of the sites that did and did not live up to the standards of children’s privacy online. She praised both Family.ca and http://www.77cn.com.cn for their message boards that did not allow users to post personal information, and noted that santasvillage. ca asked users to provide their full name and email address. http://www.77cn.com.cn was also singled out for allowing users to display personal information, including names, age, sex and locations. http://www.77cn.com.cn, on the other hand, was praised for only offering generic, pre-set avatars（头像） and barring users form uploading personal photos.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada refused to release a full list of the websites and apps reviewed. When asked what would be done with results, commissioner Daniel Therrien said that companies reviewed in the sweep would be kept informed of the findings. ― It’s our usual practice after conducting a sweep to write a number of companies to point out the things that we’ve seen, to sometimes ask that things be changed, and on the whole the companies react positively to these requests.‖ Therrien added.
In an attempt to help kids better understand why their privacy matters, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has created a lesson plan for kids in Grade 7 and 8 that explains the Global Privacy Enforcements Network and has kids conduct privacy reviews of their own.
―We know that companies are not the only ones responsible for the protection of kids’ privacy.‖ Therrien said.― Parents and teachers obviously have a role. We have a role, particularly in the area of increasing awareness of privacy issues amon g the public.‖
Matthew Johnson, director of education at MediaSmarts, said that the sweep’s results were sadly unsurprising. MediaSmarts, an Ottawa-based non-profit digital literacy outfit intended to improve media literacy and empowering the youth to better engage with media, offers age-appropriate tips to parents concerned with keeping their kids sage online.
Johnson explained that in addition to educating themselves on the issue, the best thing parents could do to protect children’s privacy online is to educate kids on the importance the function of their personal data. He mentioned an initiative by MediaSmarts called Privacy Pirates, an online game that aims to teach kids at the age of seven to nine that all forms of personal information should be protected and added that their personal information has value and they should think twice before giving it out.
66.We can conclude from the data mentioned in Paragraph 2 that________.
A. parents must be to blame for letting out their kids’ privacy
B. the time that children spend on he Internet should be limited
C. more children have realized the importance of personal privacy
D. more attention should be paid to the protection of kids’ privacy
67. Which of the following websites doesn’t require kids to provide personal information?
A. Family.ca.
B. http://www.77cn.com.cn.
C. http://www.77cn.com.cn.
D. santasvillage.ca.
68. What will most of the companies do when receiving a request from the sweep team?
A. They will help kids better understand why their privacy matters.
B. They will ask the team never to make their website public.
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