plural of confidential informant

(law enforcement) A person who secretly provides information to the police about wrongdoing which they are aware of due to their relationship to the wrongdoer.

The process of creating information model.

plural of information science

An abstract but formal representation of entities including their properties, relationships and the operations that can be performed on them.

(logic) A fallacy whose error cannot be represented by the symbols used in formal logic.

(US, law, finance) Information obtained by or from a person in a position of trust (a director, an employee, a consultant) that affects the price of publicly traded securities.

The current era, characterised by the increasing importance and availability of information (especially by means of computers), as opposed to previous eras (such as the Industrial Age) in which most endeavours related to some physical process or product.

The protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access and disruption.

(information science) The science of searching for information in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describe documents, or searching within databases, whether relational stand-alone databases or hypertextually-networked databases such as the World Wide Web.