5.5 Privacy
Privacy refers to
the right of control you have over your personal data. Everytime you fill in a
survey, go to the bank or purchase products with a credit card, databases are updated
with this information. Medical and financial information can become available
to people who are not authorised to view it if there are not proper security
checks.
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out the sentence and fill in the missing word
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Businesses and ????? departments collect a huge amount of data about our personal lives and attitude |
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Most people in pursuit of society’s benefits readily give ????? about themselves to chosen parts of the outside world. |
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Computer technology has enabled people to store a huge amount of data and provide ????? access to that data. |
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????? data can be caused by mistakes in gathering data, in data entry, by a mismatch of data and the person, or out-of-date information. |
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????? systems are in place to protect data. |
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????? could use our preferences, weaknesses and habits to their advantage. |
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Data can be combined, ????? and exchanged. |
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Governments need information to provide ????? to the community. |
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Personal data stored by ????? helps us to maintain our high standard of living. |
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????? of privacy is not a new problem. |
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Binary system is an arithmetic system to the base ????? |
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????? is an arithmetic system to the base sixteen |
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A ????? represents a single character of data such as a letter, number or symbol. |
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A word is the number of ????? processed by the registers in the CPU at one time. |
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The 7-bit ASCII code for the letter ‘M’ is ????? |
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The 8-bit EBCDIC code for the letter ‘A’ is ????? |
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????? transfer transmits data one bit at a time using only one communication line. |
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Data transfer rate is the time taken to transfer data between ????? storage and secondary storage. |
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An interface is any device that allows computers and ????? to be connected |
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A ????? is a set of rules for transferring data between computing devices. |