Australia to create awareness on teaching cyber-security to five-year-old kids

Australia has decided to train the kids to create awareness on cyber security  and hence from the age of  six, children’s to get trained education on cyber-security, even as it removes other material from the national curriculum.

With this it’ll create awareness and by eight they should be telling you not to upload geo-tagged photos of them in school uniform.

A newly draft of the national curriculum for children aged five to sixteen, launched, added a new strand titled “Considering privacy and security” that “involves students developing appropriate techniques for managing data, which is personal, and effectively implementing security protocols.”

The proposed curriculum aims to teach five-year-old children - an age at which Australian kids first attend school - not to share information such as date of birth or full names with strangers, and that they should consult parents or guardians before entering personal information online.

Six-and-seven-year-olds will be taught how to use usernames and passwords, and the pitfalls of clicking on pop-up links to competitions.

By the time kids are in third and fourth grade, they’ll be taught how to identify the personal data that may be stored by online services, and how that can reveal their location or identity. Teachers will also discuss “the use of nicknames and why these are important when playing online games.”

Australia’s national curriculum is developed by its Federal Government, which does not operate any schools. State and Territory governments get that job and, in a magnificent example of bureaucratic efficiency, can choose to use the national curriculum, or develop their own.