Term | Definition |
social networking sites | Allows users to communicate with each other and share their lives in a virtual community. Some examples are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, & Tumblr. |
cookie tracking | let some websites remember information about you like your password and username.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. |
social networking sites | Allows users to communicate with each other and share their lives in a virtual community. Some examples are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, & Tumblr. |
cookie tracking | let some websites remember information about you like your password and username.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 |