Good thing our children will learn all about this at their mandatory Internet Literacy Fundamentals course they have to take in high school.

Oh wait—no such thing exists!

It's up to us to teach this to our children. There's no hope of getting the current generations of Internet users to grasp the simple idea that app/website backends are black boxes to you, the user, such that there is absolutely nothing preventing them from selling the personal information you gave them to anyone they see fit, or even just failing to secure it properly.

Without being a developer yourself or having this information drilled into you at a young age, you're just going to grow up naively thinking that there's nothing wrong with giving personal information such as photos of your driver's license to random third parties that you have no reason to trust whatsoever, just because they have a form in their app or on their website that requests it from you.

education is helpful, but it's also inadequate. we need good drivers, and good driver safety systems. they go hand in hand.

even the most savvy consumers slip up, or are in a hurry. it's impossible to make a perfect security decision every time