Online spaces come with rules. Today the focus flips: you also have rights. Four names go on the board now: information, free expression, protection of minors, and data protection. You will meet each one in a real-looking situation and decide what it entitles a young person to do next.

In Ireland, government rules on personal data and on online safety form part of how these rights are upheld. A right is useful when you can name it and take a next step. You will learn each one properly as it turns up in the situations that follow.

Work through four situations together on the board. For every card, decide:

1. Which of the four rights is mainly involved?
2. What is one realistic next step for the young person?

On your own or with a partner, match Situations A to C to the main right involved. Write one clear next-step sentence for at least two of them (labels only on the third if you are short on time). Then invent one short situation and swap with a partner.

1. Situation A. A music app shows Róisín a screen of ticked boxes for sharing her listening history with advertisers. The decline option is tiny and easy to miss. She wants to know what data leaves the app and how to refuse.
2. Situation B. Tomasz runs a small class podcast review channel. A clip of him calmly disagreeing with a popular creator is age-restricted overnight with no reason shown and no appeal path, so none of his classmates can open it. Focus on the main right and what a fair process would let Tomasz try next.
3. Situation C. Jamie needs clear advice before joining a weekend coding club. The top result is a bright teen advice page with bold claims, no author name, no date, and no contact details. The About page is empty.

Make: Write one new two-sentence situation set in a game, app, or school post your class would recognise. Swap with a partner; they name the right and one next step. If time is tight, finish the invent-and-swap for homework.

If you finish early or for homework: Situation D. Sam asked a local sports club not to post photos of them on the club's public social page. After a match, a group photo including Sam is uploaded publicly with first names tagged. Label the main right and write one next-step sentence.

Pull the threads together. Online spaces are full of rules, but you are not only a user under rules. You are a rights-holder.

• Each situation had a main right involved: information, free expression, protection of minors, or data protection.
• A right is useful when you can name it and take a next step: ask clearly, keep evidence, use report and appeal tools, check a source you can evaluate, involve a trusted adult, or seek help from a known support.
• In Ireland, government rules on personal data and on online safety are part of the wider system that backs those rights, alongside parents or guardians, schools, and the platforms themselves.

Hold the balance: rights protect you, and they also come with respect for other people's rights. Naming both is part of using them well.