Digital Identity and Online Profiles Practice Quiz (33 questions)

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Digital identity is the sum of a person’s or entity’s digital traces and profiles, including activity from both the past and present. Ethical online conduct describes digital citizenship, rather than digital identity itself.

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Responsible conduct such as respecting privacy and avoiding misinformation is part of digital citizenship. Digital identity refers to an online representation, not the ethical quality of a person’s behavior.

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Digital identity can influence how others perceive someone and may have consequences for privacy and online security. It does not prevent others from making evaluations of a person’s online presence.

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Managing online privacy helps protect digital identity by controlling what information is available to the public, businesses, and potential malicious actors. It does not guarantee that every past online trace can be removed.

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Digital identity can combine many elements, including profiles, activity traces, communications, shared content, third-party evaluations, and privacy or security measures. A name and contact details are examples of personal information, but do not represent the full range of components.

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Employers, companies, and other people may review digital identity to verify background, assess suitability for a job, or judge the reliability of an online source. Privacy settings and authentication measures are components of digital identity, but they are not the stated purpose of these evaluations.

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A digital profile brings together personal information and data associated with someone online, including activity and preferences. A profile can include more than public posts on a single social network.

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Digital identity is the broader total of a person's profiles and online activities across platforms and over time. A digital profile is a more specific representation, often tied to one platform.

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Common digital-profile types include personal and professional social-media profiles, personal blogs, content-platform profiles, company or brand profiles, and online-game profiles. Tax records are not one of the listed digital-profile types.

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Professional social-media profiles highlight career information, including experience, skills, and achievements. Personal social-media profiles, by contrast, commonly emphasize personal information, photos, and interests.

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Each profile has a specific purpose and audience, and management helps keep the online representation accurate and consistent while supporting privacy and security. Using identical information for every audience overlooks the different purposes profiles can serve.

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Online-shopping profiles store information about buyers' past purchases and preferences. Work experience and skills are characteristic of profiles used to present candidates for employment.

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Networking involves building and maintaining relationships to exchange information, resources, and support, as well as to find opportunities and follow industry trends. Mentoring may provide guidance, but it does not encompass this broader exchange and relationship-building process.

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Intraprofessional networking connects people within the same profession. Strategic networking focuses on connections for long-term perspectives, rather than specifically on building ties within one profession.

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A social media profile represents an individual, organization, or other entity online and supports virtual identity, interaction, content sharing, and connections. A contact list can link users, but it does not provide the broader identity and content-sharing functions of a profile.

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Using the brand’s logo as its profile photo is recommended because it supports recognizability. A landscape image may be visually appealing, but it is discouraged as a profile photo and is less directly tied to brand recognition.

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Generation Z is generally described as beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing into the early 2010s, so the late 1990s falls within that range. Millennials are generally placed between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s.

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Generation Z is characterized by creative use of multiple platforms alongside selectivity about shared information and attention to privacy and security. Sharing personal details more often while emphasizing authenticity and work-life balance is more associated with Millennials.

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Personal information is data that can identify, contact, or locate a specific person. By contrast, information describing a group-wide trend may be nonpersonal if it cannot identify an individual.

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Biometric data is included among the types of personal information associated with an individual. A city's average temperature is a general record not connected to a specific person.

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Statistical or demographic information is generally nonpersonal when it cannot identify a person. Information does not need to be publicly available to be nonpersonal.

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Vocational digital-citizenship education should cover privacy, security, respectful conduct, password management, cyberbullying prevention, and identifying reliable sources. Technical training such as hardware repair may be useful but does not represent this specified citizenship-skills set.

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Students should take responsibility for their online actions by citing sources appropriately, respecting copyright, and avoiding plagiarism. Rewording another person's ideas without attribution can still constitute plagiarism.

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Positive online participation includes sharing educational content and joining constructive discussions. Drawing attention to a cause through an unverified accusation does not meet the standard of constructive contribution.

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Authenticity means representing oneself honestly and avoiding false profiles or misleading information. A professional username can be appropriate, but it does not by itself ensure that a profile represents its owner truthfully.

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Limiting retention reduces the amount of personal data exposed if a breach occurs, limiting its potential impact. Access controls address who can reach data, rather than how long it is stored.

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Internal access controls should restrict organizational systems and data to authorized parties, preventing unauthorized access that could cause a breach or privacy violation. A claimed work-related reason does not itself make access authorized.

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Personal profiles are intended for family and close friends, whereas professional profiles aim to reach a broad audience and showcase skills and achievements. The reversed audience distinction confuses the purposes of the two profile types.

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The Spanish law adapted national law to the European GDPR and repealed the earlier 1999 LOPD. It did not replace the GDPR with a separate Spanish privacy regime.

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These laws regulate organizations' collection, storage, and use of personal information and seek both secure handling and individual control. They address more than collection alone and do not exempt organizations from responsibilities.

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TLS protects information transmitted between the browser and the server on HTTPS websites, unlike HTTP sites. HTTPS does not by itself prevent a site from collecting information or guarantee how it will use it.

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A strong approach combines a unique password containing letters, numbers, and symbols with two-factor authentication. Reusing a password across accounts weakens protection even when two-factor authentication is enabled.

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End-to-end encryption means the communication's content is accessible to the authorized sender and recipient, including for messages sent through WhatsApp Messenger. It does not mean the provider can read the message content.