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Privacy Matters Champions

Last updated: July 25, 2025

Be a Champion for Privacy and Cybersecurity at UBC

Be a Champion for Privacy and Cybersecurity at UBC

Welcome to the Privacy Matters Champions Network portal — your one-stop hub for tools, resources, and inspiration to help you protect yourself, your colleagues, your loved ones, and the UBC community from evolving digital threats.

At UBC, we all share a responsibility to keep information safe.

By learning about privacy and cybersecurity, you’re already taking steps to be a Champion.

Whether you’re looking for quick training tips, engaging videos, interactive quizzes, or visual reminders for your workspace, this page offers a plethora of downloadable and on-demand resources designed to make privacy and cybersecurity practical, understandable, and empowering.

What Does It Mean to Be a Champion?

Being a Privacy Matters Champion isn’t a title — it’s a mindset.

  • You take steps to understand how privacy and cybersecurity affect your role.
  • You use the tools available to protect yourself and UBC’s data.
  • You share what you’ve learned with others.

Champions help build a stronger, more secure UBC community by staying informed and speaking up. 

So, dive in. Use the assets below to educate yourself, then empower your colleagues and loved ones to stay safe too.

What Does It Mean to Be a Champion

 

 

Champions Network Toolkit

These resources are free to download and use anytime. Come back often — we regularly update this page with fresh content!

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Top Tips PowerPoint Slides

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Top Tips PowerPoint Slides

  • Use it for: Team meetings, lunch-and-learns, or onboarding sessions.
  • What it is: A series of concise, informative slides designed to help spark quick conversations about privacy and cybersecurity during regular team touchpoints.

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  • Use it for: Department screens, digital boards, or office monitors.
  • What it is: Eye-catching, high-impact graphics that reinforce key cybersecurity and data privacy messages in shared spaces.

Phishing Workshops Highlights

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Phishing Workshop Highlights Videos

  • Use it for: Training refreshers, team email threads, or meeting icebreakers.
  • What it is: Short, insightful clips from real UBC phishing workshops, showing how to spot red flags and avoid the latest email scams.

Quizzes

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Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Quizzes

  • Use it for: Self-checks, team competitions, or training sessions.
  • What it is: Fun, interactive quizzes that test your knowledge and help reinforce best practices in a low-pressure, engaging way.

Wrap-up Videos

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Wrap-Up Videos

  • Use it for: End-of-month meetings or reflection sessions.
  • What it is: Monthly video summaries that showcase featured articles from the Privacy Matters website, and UBC’s collective progress in privacy and cybersecurity awareness.

Security Sync Podcast

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Security Sync Podcast

  • Use it for: On-the-go updates or personal learning.
  • What it is: A bite-sized podcast featuring timely updates from UBC cybersecurity and privacy teams — perfect for listening during your commute, walk, or coffee break.

 

Champions Program

Want More? Join the Champions Network

If you’ve made it this far, you already see the value in staying informed and sharing what you know. But you’re only seeing part of what the Champions Network has to offer.

By joining the Champions Network, you’ll gain:

  • Access to a private Microsoft Teams channel where you can connect directly with UBC privacy and cybersecurity experts
  • Real-time conversations with Champions across campus
  • A monthly Teams newsletter featuring new resources, upcoming events, and exclusive spotlights on UBC privacy and cybersecurity professionals
  • A safe space to ask questions, share challenges, swap stories, and collaborate on building a safer digital environment

Joining takes seconds and makes a big impact. Become part of a vibrant, supportive community that’s working together to protect the people, data, and research that power UBC.

Become a Champion

 

Go Further...

Privacy Matters @ UBC

Safety & Risk Services | 2389 Health Sciences Mall
University Counsel | 6328 Memorial Road,
UBC Cybersecurity | 6356 Agricultural Road
E-mail privacy.matters@ubc.ca

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