Ethics in Technology

AI

Artificial Intelligence

HIPPA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (An act that required national standards to protect patients’ health information from being disclosed without their consent.)

DDoS Attack

Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack (An attack in which a malicious hacker takes over computers via the internet and causes them to flood a target site with demands for data and other small tasks.)

COPA

Child Online Protection Act (An act signed into law in 1998 with the aim of prohibiting the making of harmful material available to minors via the internet; the law was ultimately ruled largely unconstitutional.)

CSR

Corporate Social Responsibility (The concept that an organization should act ethically by taking responsibility for the impact of its actions on its shareholders, consumers, employees, community, environment, and suppliers.)

DMCA

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Signed into law in 1998, the act addresses a number of copyright-related issues, with Title II of the act providing limitations on the liability of an Internet service provider for copyright infringement.)

FERPA

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (A federal law that assigns certain rights to parents regarding their children's educational records.)

BYOD

Bring Your Own Device (A business policy that permits—and in some cases, encourages—employees to use their own mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, or laptops) to access company computing resources and applications, including email, corporate databases, the corporate intranet, and the internet.)

SLAPP

Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (A lawsuit filed by corporations, government officials, and others against citizens and community groups who oppose them on matters of concern. Such lawsuits typically are without merit and are used to intimidate critics)

CIPA

Children's Internet Protection Act (An act passed in 2000; it required federally financed schools and libraries to use some form of technological protection (such as an internet filter) to block computer access to obscene material, pornography, and anything else considered harmful to minors.)

COPPA

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (An act that requires U.S.-based websites that collect personal information from people under the age of 13 to obtain permission from parents or guardians before asking for such data.)

IPR

Intellectual Property Rights

IT

Information Technology

CIA Security Triad

Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability

AUP

Acceptable Use Policy (A document that stipulates restrictions and practices that a user must agree in order to use organizational computing and network resources.)