Happy National Night Out All! 💝
The FBI disseminated a series of videos seeking to educate the public about ways to protect against online foreign influence operations and cybersecurity threats, within the context of elections. They refer to it as the “Protected Voices Initiative.”
(https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/foreign-influence/protected-voices)
This post is the second in a series of two.1 In addition to the videos on the Initiative page, there are a number of helpful links located under the heading “Additional Resources” further down the page. These include links to information in Spanish, as well as to NIST’s National Initiative For Cybersecurity Education, and more.
Use of the web has become more mainstream. Nevertheless, an expected range for the competency we might term a “reasonable level of web literacy” continues to vary, widely. This aforementioned elusive range is reflected by the broad subject matter addressed by the Protected Voices Initiative and brings us to a final observation about the way the information in the “Initiative” is disseminated: All one needs to learn from this initiative is web access.2 One can review the links and videos without signing in to any websites, and one does not need to have any apps in particular installed on one’s own devices to view the materials. This makes the Initiative page very user friendly for people with differing levels of web literacy, which can be viewed as a definite plus in terms of en masse attaining a reasonable level of web literacy, generally. And that is going to make us all safer online.
1 Postscript: If you are reading this and thinking; "Part 2?" "Where is Part 1?" Here is part 1: https://stanza28.blogspot.com/2020/07/protected-voices-initiative-commentary.html
2 For those with vision loss, please see the following link for a list of assistive technologies, including screen readers: https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/assistive-technology-products
