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Vocabulary

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Digital Citizenship   the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use by digital users  
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Digital Footprint   the trail or traces that people leave online  
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Cookies   a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user's computer by the user's web browser while the user is browsing  
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Internet safety   the knowledge of maximizing the user's personal safety and security risks to private information and property associated with using the internet, and the self-protection from computer crime in general  
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Password Security   a process that protects information accessible via computers that needs to be protected from certain users  
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Netiquette   the correct or acceptable way of communicating on the Internet  
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Copyright   a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including. literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works  
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Public Domain   the state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright  
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Copyright Infringement   the use of works protected by copyright law without permission  
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Fair Use   a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances  
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Creative Commons   an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share  
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Virus   a type of malware that, when executed, replicates by reproducing itself (copying its own source code) or infecting other computer programs by modifying them  
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Spyware   software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another's computer activities by transmitting data covertly from their hard drive  
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Malware   malicious software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems  
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Spam (noun)   a type of electronic spam where unsolicited messages are sent by email  
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Spam (verb)   send the same message indiscriminately to (large numbers of recipients) on the Internet  
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Phishing   the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers  
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Social Media   websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking  
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Intellectual Property   creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce  
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Plagiarism   the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own  
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Stock photo   professional photographs of common places, landmarks, nature, events or people that are bought and sold on a royalty-free basis and can be used and reused for commercial design purposes  
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act   a 1998 US law intended to update copyright law for electronic commerce and electronic content providers. It criminalizes the circumvention of electronic and digital copyright protection systems  
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digital watermark   a pattern of bits inserted into a digital image, audio or video file that identifies the file's copyright information  
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