MIS 3305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 27: Child Online Protection Act, Letter Bomb, Electronic Discovery

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 3305
• Professor: Esserman

Document Summary

The information privacy policy contains general principles regarding information privacy. Website name stealing is the theft of a website"s name that occurs when someone, posing as a site"s administrator, changes the ownership of the domain name assigned to the website to another website owner. Ediscovery and electronic discovery refer to the ability of a company to identify, search, gather, seize, or export digital information in responding to a litigation, audit, investigation, or information inquiry. Key logger a program that records every keystroke and mouse click. Hardware key logger a hardware device that captures keystrokes on their journey from the keyboard to the motherboard. Cookie a small file deposited on a hard drive by a website containing information about customers and their web activities. Adware software that generates ads that install themselves on a computer when a person downloads some other program from the internet. Spyware software that comes hidden in free downloadable software and tracks online movements.