Glossary
- Data protection:
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Under certain jurisdiction, personal data can only be gathered legally under strict conditions, for a legitimate purpose. Persons or organizations that collect and manage personal information must protect it from misuse and must respect certain rights of the data owners, defined by the applicable laws of the jurisdiction concerned
- Defamation:
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Defamation refers to the publication or posting on a social networking site of a false statement (written or oral, for instance, contained in a video) about someone else that causes harm to his/her reputation
- Intellectual property rights:
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Intellectual property rights are a set of exclusive rights that are recognized under law for using a number of distinct types of creations of the mind (intangible assets). Common types of intellectual property rights include Copyright and Industrial property (such as trademarks, patents,...
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Parrilli, D.M., Gangadharan, G. (2018). Legal Implications of Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_200
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