The Badge Archive

Fulfills Step 4 of GSUSA Cadette Cybersecurity Safeguards badge requirements.

Info Needed for badge requirements: A EULA, or End-User License Agreement, is a contract that explains how you are allowed to use a software or app. It includes rules about using the app, what the company can do with your information, and what you agree to when downloading it. Although these agreements often use complicated language, it’s important to understand them so you know what you’re agreeing to and how your information might be used.

Items Needed

• Step 4: VTK App Store Posters by GSUSA (cut each poster with tabs to tear off and cut each EULA Cards for each app and tape them to the back of each poster)
• Enough copies of posters and cards for the group – consider extras if more than 10 scouts

Before the Meeting

• Set up App Store Posters with matching EULA Cards around the room. Only secure them to the wall by the top, so scouts could lift the poster and read the EULA card on the back if they knew they were there (don’t tell them)

Instructions

1. Explain to scouts that the room is an “App Store.” Scouts will explore the app posters, decide which apps they like best, and “buy” apps by tearing off a tab from the bottom of the posters. Allow 5–10 minutes for scouts to shop.
2. Show them that each app had a EULAs on the back. Explain that EULAs are contracts that explain the rules for using apps and what happens with personal data. Scouts now look on the back of the App Store Posters to read a sentence from the user agreement (EULA) for each app. (Optional) Take the App Store Posters down to make it easier for Scouts to take turns reading the EULA sentences aloud.
3. As a group, discuss: Did anything in the user agreements surprise you? Are you comfortable agreeing to those terms? Why or why not?
4. Allow scouts to “exchange” any apps they no longer want after learning about the EULAs. They return the tabs by placing them near the app poster where they came from.