Comment by ipaddr
Those are labels. Identity theft is more identity fraud. Theft of digital assets is copyright infringement.
Those are labels. Identity theft is more identity fraud. Theft of digital assets is copyright infringement.
Identity theft is someone else stealing money from the bank, and the bank telling you that's your problem now.
This is interesting, I definitely use "theft" colloquially for all these things.
For the digital assets, I mentally bucket copyright infringement and theft differently. For instance, if I copy someone's photography and sell it, that's copyright infringement (not theft). However, if I hacked into someones Google photos and sold the contents, I'd consider that theft (since there was no intent for the material to be available)
Granted, it's fair to disagree here, so I'm not adamantly against the definition that requires removing access or anything.