Big Idea 5: Impact of Computing

Digital divide

Difference in access to internet due to lack of infrastructure, education, interest, and money.

Crowdsourcing

Asking crowd online for money and help.

Citizen science

Asking nonscientists or scientists on a global scale to study or research for time efficiency, bulk data and less bias.

Creative Commons license

Gives creators of software and media rights to indicate level of permissions for others. Ex. No restrictions, must cite, cannot modify, cannot sell, all rights reserved. No rights reserved means free

PII

Personally identifiable information like age, phone number, location, medical and banking, biometric data. Had monetary value. Can simplify online transactions. Trading PII for $ = privacy concern.

Crowdfunding

Asking online crowd for financial support.

Open source software

Freely-shared, updated and supported by anyone like Wikipedia. One concern is plagiarism and selling.

Open access

Access to large datasets by us gov to public for free instead of commercial use software.

Digital certificates

Issued by certificate authorities that validate existence of company and encryption keys.

DDOS

Distributed denial of service attacks are made of botnets infected by malware. The master signals the botnet to flood servers with thousands of requests preventing people from accessing services. Healthcare, police lines, gov websites, social media crashes and could be life-threatening.

Boolean logic gates

Broaden or narrow searches and smarter marketing. Not - excludes. And- only specific. Or - filters. Supercar Ads for rich and middle class