Privacy Working Group


Resources

 

Behavioral Advertising

Behavioral Advertising involves serving up ads to a particular individual based on his or her previous online behavior. It is not to be confused with contextual advertising, which serves up ads that are related to the content of the web page on which they're appearing.

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Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is the use of a third party service to perform computing needs on a publicly accessible IP basis.

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Cookies

Cookies are often used for identifying text sent by a server to a Web client (usually a browser) and then sent back unchanged by the client each time it accesses that server.

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Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is the use of electronic means by a minor to torment, threaten, harass, humiliate, embarrass or otherwise target another minor.

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Data Governance

Data Governance is the people, processes, and information technology required to create a consistent and proper handling of an organization's data across the business enterprise.

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Identity Theft

Identity Theft is crime in which an impostor uses the name, social security number, and/or other identifying information of a victim to open credit accounts, use existing credit accounts, or otherwise acquire benefits using the victim's identity.

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Phishing

Phishing is the attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information (passwords, financial information, etc) by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in a seemingly official communication.

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The Obama Administration

Updates on how President Obama and his staff is addressing online privacy.

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