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FPS vocab
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| investigation | in law, the process of gathering data about a situation or person, usually to present in a court case |
| database | a collection of information or data |
| personal data | sometimes called personal information; details about a person, possibly including their name, address, race, ethnicity, age, political affiliation, religion, financial information, and other details unique to that person |
| artificial intelligence (AI) | a system that uses data and algorithms to perform a task or tasks normally done by humans, including reasoning, automation of workflow, data analysis, and pattern recognition |
| biometric data | data related to your physical body, such as an ID photo, fingerprint, iris scan, voice print, or DNA sample |
| census | a count of all people and households in a nation; many nations take a census every ten years and may include questions about personal information |
| closed-circuit television (CCTV) | a system of video cameras that sends signals to a limited number of monitors |
| cookie | small files with data such as username and password that allow websites to identify a computer; one use of cookies is session management, and without them, users would have to log in to a site every time they visit, even while using the same computer |
| dash-cam | dashboard camera, a camera mounted inside a car to film traffic, often used to prove a driver's innocence in the case of a traffic accident |
| data broker | an individual or company that collects personal data from public or private sources and sells or licenses that information, often to advertising companies |
| defendant | a person, company, or institution who is accused of a crime in a court of law |
| emotion recognition | facial recognition technology that attempts to assign emotions or motivations to different facial expressions |
| encryption | the process of converting information or data into a scrambled code that can only be unscrambled with a key |
| face surveillance | sometimes called live face surveillance or live facial recognition; facial recognition technology that identifies faces in videos and moving images |
| facial recognition | technology that compares an image of a person's face to a database of faces in order to identify that person |
| hacker | a program or person who can get into a computer system without permission, often to gather data |
| intelligence | the ability to gather and apply information and skills |
| intelligence agency | a government agency that gathers information or intelligence for the purposes of national security and defense, e.g. MI5 and MI6 (UK), CIA and NSA (USA) |
| internet history | also called browser history, a list of web pages that a user has visited, including metadata, like page title and time of visit, which is usually stored by web browsers; users can usually go back to previously visited pages |
| Internet of things (IoT) | the connection between computing devices in different objects that send and receive data, such as GPS devices, cars, and appliances that are connected to the Internet |
| IP address | a unique string of characters that identifies each computer, allowing them to communicate over a network |
| keylogging | when a website monitors what a user types into a page before hitting the 'enter' or 'submit' button |
| law enforcement | various government agencies that are involved in preventing crimes and dealing with criminals, such as police force, courts, prisons, and security agencies |
| livestream | a video broadcast which shows what a camera is capturing in real time |
| mass surveillance | collecting and monitoring a large amount of information about a population, often without the knowledge or consent of the population |
| obscurity | the idea that personal data is safer when it is difficult to find or interpret |
| police brutality | when police officers use excessive, unnecessary force against a person or group, often leading to physical harm |
| smart device | an electronic device that is wirelessly connected to other devices or networks, which can interact with the user or other devices |
| surveillance | close observation of a person or their actions, including tracking their movements, purchases, internet history, or communications |
| surveillance capitalism | the economic system that relies on harvesting personal data from consumers and then monetizing that data by selling it to brands to target customers more efficiently |
| third-party cookie | a cookie that belongs to a domain different from the one displayed in the browser, usually used for tracking purposes |
| tracking device | an electronic device that allows someone to monitor the location of a person or object |
| virtual private network (VPN) | a network that protects users by encrypting their data and masking their IP addresses |
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