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Hello Mrs Marshalls Class this is Computer Definitions

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Social Networking   Allows users to communicate with each other and share their lives in a virtual community. Some examples are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, & Tumblr.  
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Cookies   let some websites remember information about you like your password and username. Cookies can make the website personalized just for you. Some users don’t like websites recording information about them so they set their browser to not accept cookies.  
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Hacker   A person who gains unauthorized access to a computer  
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Virus   Programs that can hurt your computer. A virus can create, move, or erase your files and cause your computer to not work properly.  
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IIdentity 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  
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Plagiarism   Taking someone else’s ideas or work and claiming they are your own  
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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.  
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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 (Ex. Songwriters must be paid for writing their songs when you buy them)  
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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  
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Digital Millenium Copyright Act   Updates US copyright law to include digital media  
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Internet censorship   The control or blocking of what can be viewed or published on the internet  
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Netiquette   Good manners when using the internet. Respecting others’ privacy and not doing annoying behaviors online  
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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.  
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Spyware   Software that can spy on your computer. It can get passwords, e-mail messages, credit card information and more.  
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Anti Virus Software filtering software   Anti-virus programs are designed to detect and remove viruses from your computer. Filtering software restricts and controls the content a user can see. (The school uses this to filter out “bad” websites)  
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