IB Digital Society 3.4F Internet Dilemmas Key Definitions

A part of the internet reachable only with special software that hides users' identities and locations, used both for protected communication and for illegal trade and activity.

Scrambling data using a key so that only someone with the correct key can read it, protecting the data both while it is stored and while it is being sent.

Malicious software written to damage, disrupt, or gain unauthorised access to a computer or its data.

A person's ability to control what information about themselves is collected, who can see it, and how it is used.

The idea, recognised in some laws, that people can ask for personal information about them to be removed from search results or websites when it is outdated, irrelevant, or harmful.

The systematic monitoring of people's behaviour, often through digital data, by a state or company, whether or not those being watched are aware of it.

Deliberately posting provocative, offensive, or harmful messages online to upset, bait, or harass others, often shielded by the anonymity the internet allows.