PRIVACY BASICS
DATA & SECURITY
WATCHING & TRACKING
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DIGITAL LIFE
100
The state of keeping your personal life protected or hidden
Privacy
100
Rules that keep personal information safe
Data Protection
100
Watching people closely, often with cameras
Surveillance
100
A set of steps a computer follows to solve a problem
Algorithm
100
A secret word that protects your account
Password
200
When someone looks into your personal life without permission
Invasion of Privacy
200
Information that must be protected because it is private
Sensitive
200
When someone’s actions are watched or checked (starts with an M)
Monitored
200
When a computer learns from data to improve
Machine-Learning
200
A person who breaks into computer systems, often illegally
Hacker
300
Something private that must not be shared
Confidential
300
A way to hide information so only the right people can read it
Encryption
300
To follow or find someone by their information (starts with T)
Trace
300
Able to feel or think like a human
Sentient
300
A tool that hides your online activity and location
VPN
400
The idea that everyone should be able to keep personal things secret
Right To Privacy
400
When private information is stolen or leaked
Data Breach
400
Information about your body, like fingerprints or face scans
Biometric Data
400
A test to see if a machine can act like a human
Turing Test
400
An imitation or model of a real activity, created for training purposes or to solve a problem
Simulation
500
Hidden secrets someone doesn’t want others to know, idiom
Skeletons In The Closet
500
When a computer program treats people unfairly
Algorithmic Bias
500
A very serious danger that could threaten humanity
Existential Risk
500
AI far smarter than any human
Artificial Superintelligence
500
A future moment when AI becomes much smarter than humans
Singularity