BBC News (4 Aug 2016) published Net overload ‘sparks digital detox for millions of Britons’, 
which highlighted how many of us are taking a detox from our digital devices.
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Professional Bodies Guidelines
There are 
various professional bodies which have social media/digital footprint/online etiquette guidelines. Depending on your discipline, students may need to comply with these guidelines while at university. Following the guidelines now will ensure you are best placed for when you leave university. Some of the guidelines you may need to consider are below (but there are likely to be others)
- General Medical Council – Doctors’ use of social media (PDF)
- General Teaching Council for Scotland – Professional Guidance on the Use of Electronic Communication and Social Media (PDF)
- Royal College of General Practitioners social media highway code
- NHS Employers – Social Media Guidelines
- Law Society Scotland – Social Media Guidance
- Royal College of Nursing
- Nursing and Midwifery Council
- The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) – Social Media Policy
- British Medical Association (BMA) – Social Media Guidance (PDF)
- Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) – Using social media (PDF)
Tell us whether you have looked at any professional bodies’ guidelines
Privacy and Apps
Do you stop and think before accepting the terms & conditions of an app? Most of us don’t but it might surprise you that the terms & conditions could be accessing a lot of your personal data. The following short videos highlight this.
- #Privacy Project (27 Jan 2015) “Some of the most popular apps on your smartphone ask for permissions that expose data to outside” (2mins)
- Video: Why digital app T&Cs fail in the real world (8 Jan 2015). “If your APP was a shop assistant”; This video is in Danish with English subtitles. It humorously makes the point that apps collect information that we would not willingly give to a stranger if they asked us the same questions in the real world (~2mins)
Managing Your Digital Footprint 