Glossary
Plain-language explanations for encryption, tracking, compliance, and security concepts.
Anonymization
Privacy criterion limiting distance between sensitive-attribute distributions in groups vs. overall distribution.
Security
Abbreviation for Trusted Execution Environment; hardware-assisted isolation for sensitive computation.
Tracking
Automatic collection of operational and usage signals from clients to a service.
Law
Contractual terms governing service use, accounts, acceptable use, and enforcement.
Tracking
Cookies scoped to a third-party domain used for cross-site identifier reuse.
Tracking
Cross-site/app tracking by external entities using shared identifiers and scripts.
Security
Curated data about adversaries, indicators, tactics, and campaigns used to inform detection and response.
Security
Structured analysis of assets, adversaries, attack surfaces, and mitigations to manage risk.
Encryption
Cryptographic protocol for secure transport.
Security
Substitution of sensitive values with tokens, with mapping stored in a controlled system.
Network Privacy
Onion-routing network providing source IP obfuscation.
Authentication
RFC 6238 one-time code derived from time.
Tracking
Behavioral data collection for profiling and attribution.
Tracking
Beacon mechanism that triggers a request to log an event and related metadata.
Network Privacy
Linking communication endpoints by correlating traffic features across observation points.
Privacy
Practice of providing clear, accurate disclosures and user-facing explanations of data flows.
Threats
Malicious software disguised as benign code.
Security
Isolated execution region providing confidentiality and integrity guarantees for code and data.
Authentication
Authentication using two independent factors.
Encryption
It’s like a secret code that scrambles your data in a very strong way so no one else can understand it.