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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| social Networking sites | Allows users to communicate with each other and share their lives in a virtual community. |
| cookie tracking | Cookies let some websites remember information about you like your password and username. Cookies can make the website personalized just for you. |
| hacker | A person who gains unauthorized access to a computer |
| virus | Programs that can hurt your computer. A virus can create, move, or erase your files and cause your computer to not work properly. |
| identity theft | A crime where someone wrongfully gets and uses another person’s name and/or personal data in order to benefit themselves (ex. Steal their money) |
| plagiarism | Taking someone else’s ideas or work and claiming they are your own |
| intellectual property | Creations of the mind: inventions, trademarks, novels, poems, plays, film, music, artistic works. Allows the owners of the creations to benefit. Protects their works. |
| copyright | the exclusive legal right, given to the creator of a work to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same |
| fair use act | Allows limited use of a copyrighted work without payment. Examples: You can use 10% or 3 min of a copyrighted video in your presentations 10% or 30 seconds of copyrighted music You can make one backup copy of a CD for yourself |
| digital millennium copyright act | Updates US copyright law to include digital media |
| internet censorship | The control or blocking of what can be viewed or published on the internet |
| Netiquette | Good manners when using the internet. Respecting others’ privacy and not doing annoying behaviors online |
| spam | Junk email. E-mail that you don’t want to get. People who “spam” usually send useless e-mails (or advertising) to large numbers of people at once. |
| spyware | Software that can spy on your computer. It can get passwords, e-mail messages, credit card information and more. |
| anti virus software | Anti-virus programs are designed to detect and remove viruses from your computer. |
| filtering software | Filtering software restricts and controls the content a user can see. (The school uses this to filter out “bad” websites) |
| malware | Programs designed to do damage to computers. “mal” means bad! |
| internet search engines | Used to locate websites when users enter search terms or phrases. Some examples are: Google, yahoo, Bing, Ask |
| internet domains | A name used to identify a website. .com (commercial site) .edu (educational site) .gov (government site) .org (organization) |
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