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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 | websites remember information about you like your password and username. |
| Hacker | A person who gains unauthorized access to a computer |
| Virus | Programs that can hurt your computer. |
| identity thief | A crime where someone wrongfully gets and uses another person’s name and/or personal data in order to benefit themselves |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Spam | Junk email. E-mail that you don’t want to get. |
| Spyware |