Privacy, identification and authentication

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Web Science[1]
  • Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively.[2]
  • Identity is (in the context of web science) information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.[3]
  • Authentication is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a single piece of data claimed true by an entity. In contrast with identification, which refers to the act of stating or otherwise indicating a claim purportedly attesting to a person or thing's identity, authentication is the process of actually confirming that identity [4].


Do you understand this?[edit]

From the IB: Students should investigate sites such as TurnItIn and Creative Commons.


Standards[edit]

These standards are used from the IB Computer Science Subject Guide[5]

  • Describe the interrelationship between privacy, identification and authentication.


References[edit]

  1. http://www.flaticon.com/
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_information
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentication
  5. IB Diploma Programme Computer science guide (first examinations 2014). Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom: International Baccalaureate Organization. January 2012.