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Cyber Glossary

Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.

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Biller account

is an EFT account maintained by account institutions for the sole purpose of paying bills given by the account institution. In other words to record amounts owed or paid by its customer to the account institution for the provision of goods or services by the account institution (e.g. an account with the electricity company for the sole purpose of paying the electricity bill).