Privacy & Security
This is the right to control how your personal information is collected and used online.
What is privacy?
The gap between people who have access to technology and those who don’t.
What is the digital divide?
These are the raw facts that computers collect and process.
What is data?
Copying code without permission violates this legal concept.
What is copyright?
This kind of site allows users to post and share content easily with others.What is a social media platform?
What is a social media platform?
A common type of attack where someone tries to trick you into giving up personal information.
What is phishing?
Giving students in rural areas computers and internet is meant to reduce this.
What is unequal access to technology?
People willingly provide personal information by accepting this without reading.
What is a privacy policy or user agreement?
Using open-source software without following its license terms breaks this.
What is a license agreement?
The use of large groups of people to collect or analyze information.
What is crowdsourcing?
This kind of encryption uses one key to encrypt data and a different key to decrypt it.
What is public key encryption?
This kind of design ensures digital tools can be used by people with disabilities.
What is accessible design?
Massive amounts of data generated from phones and devices is known as this.
What is big data?
This type of license allows sharing and modifying but not commercial use.
What is Creative Commons?
Personalized feeds on social media can lead to this kind of information filter.
What is an echo chamber?
Data breaches often happen because companies fail to do this to protect user data.
What is encryption?
Lack of diversity in tech leads to products that may ignore the needs of these groups.
What are minority groups?
Data collected without proper consent can lead to violations of this.
What is data ethics or privacy?
AI systems showing unfair results for certain groups demonstrate this problem.
What is algorithmic bias?
AI art generators are changing how society views this type of human expression.
What is art?
This controversial policy proposal pits national security interests against the protection of individual privacy by demanding companies allow government access to encrypted communications.
What is a government-mandated backdoor?
A policy or initiative designed to give equal technology access to all communities.
What is digital inclusion?
Algorithms trained on biased data often reflect and amplify these.
What are societal or cultural biases?
Before releasing an AI system that could affect livelihoods or reputations, developers should consider these three major ethical principles.
What are accountability, transparency, and potential harm?
This emerging challenge, fueled by AI-generated content, threatens the credibility of journalism and public confidence in democratic systems.
What is misinformation or fake news?