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.
Screen Scraping (or Content Aggregation)
Taking or pulling information off one or more websites and aggregating it onto another website. The sites are usually not linked in any way. An aggregation website allows a user to place all of their financial and other details on one website as opposed to accessing several websites using several passwords. Screen scraping takes place without the permission or knowledge of the owner of the website from which the information is taken.
