Glossary
Plain-language explanations for encryption, tracking, compliance, and security concepts.
Tracking
Technique for probabilistic identification using device/browser attributes and behavioral signals.
Tracking
It’s like a name tag for your phone or tablet that apps can see.
Privacy
Formal privacy framework limiting the influence of any single record on outputs.
Privacy
User authorization for specific data processing activities, ideally informed, specific, and freely given.
Privacy
Accumulated data traces from online and device activity across services over time.
Privacy
Privacy-focused maintenance of identities, devices, and data-sharing practices.
Authentication
Set of attributes, identifiers, and credentials used to represent a subject in digital systems.
Privacy
EU regulation governing intermediary services with transparency and risk duties.
Encryption
Asymmetric cryptographic mechanism providing integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation (in certain contexts).
Compliance
It’s like a country wanting to use its own tools and keep its data inside its borders.
Data Management
Capability to restore services after disruptive events, using procedures, backups, and alternate infrastructure (RTO/RPO).
Privacy
Temporary or alias email address used to reduce exposure and linkability during account creation.
Security
DomainKeys Identified Mail: cryptographic signing of email using domain-published public keys for validation.
Security
Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance: policy + alignment enforcing SPF/DKIM results and reporting.
Networking
Distributed naming system mapping domains to records.
Network Privacy
Resolver queries escaping intended privacy tunnel.
Networking
DNS queries transported over HTTPS/TLS.
Networking
DNS Security Extensions adding cryptographic signatures to DNS records for authenticity verification.
Network Privacy
Two-hop chained VPN egress architecture.
Threats
Malicious disclosure of personally identifying information to enable harassment, intimidation, or retaliation.
Privacy
India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act establishing rights and obligations.
Security
Access-control and copy-control mechanisms enforced by software/hardware to restrict content usage.
Privacy
Formal request exercising data subject rights (access, deletion, portability, etc.).
Tracking
Probabilistic identification via observable client signals.