{"id":33,"date":"2026-03-26T18:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/chapter\/paying-with-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:29:08","slug":"paying-with-privacy","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/chapter\/paying-with-privacy\/","title":{"raw":"Paying With Privacy","rendered":"Paying With Privacy"},"content":{"raw":"\n\nNow have students access the student chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploringstudentwrdsb\/chapter\/how-are-you-paying\/\">How Are You Paying?<\/a>\n\nHave them use the interactive tool to list all of the paid apps (ones that you pay to purchase, that have a subscription fee, or that include in-app purchases) that they use in the left-hand column, and all of thefree apps (that you do not pay money for in any way) in the right- hand column. (If they do not know whether an app is paid or not, have them put it in the free column.)\n\nNow ask students: Which list is longer? Have students name some of the free apps that were included in the right-hand column and list them on the board. They will likely include social networks such as Instagram and Snapchat.\n\nAsk students: If these apps are free, how do you think they make money? Let students suggest a few answers without indicating whether they are right or wrong.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n","rendered":"<p>Now have students access the student chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/exploringstudentwrdsb\/chapter\/how-are-you-paying\/\">How Are You Paying?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have them use the interactive tool to list all of the paid apps (ones that you pay to purchase, that have a subscription fee, or that include in-app purchases) that they use in the left-hand column, and all of thefree apps (that you do not pay money for in any way) in the right- hand column. (If they do not know whether an app is paid or not, have them put it in the free column.)<\/p>\n<p>Now ask students: Which list is longer? Have students name some of the free apps that were included in the right-hand column and list them on the board. They will likely include social networks such as Instagram and Snapchat.<\/p>\n<p>Ask students: If these apps are free, how do you think they make money? Let students suggest a few answers without indicating whether they are right or wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-33","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":29,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33\/revisions\/231"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/29"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/explore-teacher-wrdsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}