cis chap 5
Terms
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- the state of being concealed or free from unauthorized intrusion
- privacy
- the rights of individuals and companies to control how information about them is collected and used.
- information privacy
- small text files that are stored on your hard drive by the Web server
- cookies
- usually very small image on a Web page that transmits data about a Web page visitor back to the Web page's server.
- web bugs
- any software installed without the user's knowledge that secretly gathers information about the user and transmits it to advertisers
- spyware
- contain data about people and their buying habits
- marketing databases
- contain information about individuals
- government databases
- collecting a variety of in depth information about an individual
- electronic profiling
- unsolicited email sent to a large group of individuals at one time and is the electronic equivalent of junk mail
- spam
- sorts your incoming email messages
- email filter
- blocking access to web sites containing objectionable material
- internet filtering
- software that records keystrokes, programs used, or otherwise monitors the activity a computer is used for.
- computer monitoring software
- monitoring system used by the FBI to retrieve Internet traffic from a suspect's PC.
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- using cameras to monitor the activities of individuals
- video surveillance
- the ability of one computing device on a network to locate and identify another device on the same network and determine its status
- presence technology