Data collection
The gathering of information about how you use an app.
Learn it through a story
- The Game That Asked for Too Much (Cybersecurity for Juniors 1, Ch 3)
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Related terms
- Cybercrime helpline, 1930 India's national number for reporting cyber fraud.
- Dark pattern A design built on purpose to push you toward one choice, like a huge "Allow All" button.
- DAST Dynamic application security testing, probing a running application like an external attacker would.
- Data fiduciary An organisation entrusted with collecting and handling someone's personal data responsibly.
- Data leakage When an AI reveals private information it saw in training or in a chat.
- Data minimisation Collecting only the data actually needed for a service to function.