As part of the brand, I wanted to create a set of playing cards for an interactive game relating to cyber-security case studies. The idea is that these cards can be passed around teens, in settings such as classrooms, open-days, school visits and at home, in order to teach them about appropriate responses and actions to take when dealing with cyber-safety issues.

Firstly, I need to gather some research based around cyber-crime incidents on teenagers in recent years, and any current trends/new forms of crimes that are popping up.

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Examples of Troubling Cyber Incidents with Teens:

• Hacking - social media, passwords
• Phishing - fake emails asking for personal information and/or money
• Malicious software - including ransomware where criminals hijack files and hold them ransom until a sum of money is paid
• Cyberbullying - a lot of it is not brought up to parents/authority figures, happens a lot in online gaming
• Predators - unlimited access to social media/internet/social websites can put children in danger of predators
• Posting of private information - on social media, non-private accounts, can be home addresses and phone numbers
• Digital footprint - the internet does not have a “delete” key, once something is posted it stays on the internet forever

For the game’s rules, I’m inspired by existing popular games such as Chameleon and Among Us, where players must hide amongst the others and try to blend in.

I’ve written out the rules of how the card game would work: