principles of MIS chapter 4
________ is a feature of social institutions that means mechanisms are in place to determine responsibility for an action.
Accountability
All of the following laws apply to actions by the federal government except the:
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Identifying the stakeholders-people who have a vested interest in the outcome of the decision-is the last step in analyzing an ethical issue.
False
A man steals from a grocery store in order to feed his starving family. Which of the following best expresses the utilitarian principle in evaluating this situation?
His action is acceptable, because the higher social value is the survival of the family.
Which of the following best describes Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative?
If an action is not right for everyone to take, it is not right for anyone to take.
Which of the following is not one of the current key technology trends that raises ethical issues?
Increase in data quality
What is not a feature of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
It prevents firms from using cookies.
What percent of global Internet users use Google Search and other Google services such as YouTube?
Nearly 80 percent
________ means that you accept the potential costs and obligations for the decisions you make.
Responsibility
All of the following are steps in the process for analyzing an ethical issue except:
assigning responsibility.
The Network Advertising Initiative is an industry association that:
encourages self-regulation to develop a set of privacy guidelines for its members.
In 2010, the FTC added all of the following recommendations to its privacy guidelines except:
firms should limit the length of time that any personal data is stored to six months or less.
According to ________, you should take the action that produces the least harm.
the risk aversion principle
The FIP principle of Notice/Awareness states that:
websites must disclose their information practices before collecting data.
Which of the following is not a U.S. federal law affecting private institutions?
Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act
Which of the following protects the authors of a book from having their work copied by others?
Copyright law
________ is a feature of law-governed society and involves having laws that are known and understood, along with the ability to appeal to higher authorities to ensure that the laws are applied correctly.
Due process
In today's legal environment, managers who are convicted for the illegal use of information systems are still unlikely to be given a prison sentence.
False
Which of the following U.S. laws gives patients access to personal medical records and the right to authorize how this information can be used or disclosed?
HIPAA
Which of the five moral dimensions of the information age do the central business activities of DoubleClick involve
Information rights and obligations
Which of the following best describes the effect that new information technology has on society?
It has a ripple effect, raising new ethical, social, and political issues.
A colleague at work takes small amounts of office supplies for her own personal use, saying that this is a tiny loss to the company. You tell her that if everyone were to take office supplies, then the loss would no longer be minimal. Your rationale expresses which of the following ethical principles?
Kant's Categorical Imperative
FIP principles are based on a belief in which of the following?
Mutuality of interest between the record holder and the individual
Which of the following is a data analysis technology that finds hidden connections between data in disparate sources?
NORA
The NAI is an industry association formed to help with which of the following?
Online privacy issues
The use of computers to assemble data from different sources to create digital dossiers of detailed information about individuals is known as which of the following?
Profiling
The obligations that individuals and organizations have concerning rights to intellectual property involve which of the following moral dimensions of the information age?
Property rights and obligations
The obligations that individuals and organizations have regarding the preservation of existing values and institutions fall within which of the following moral dimensions of the information age?
Quality of life
Which ethical rule states that if an action cannot be taken repeatedly, it is not right to take at all?
Slippery-slope rule
Which of the following restricts the information that the U.S. federal government can collect about an individual and regulates what it can do with the information?
The Privacy Act
Which of the following is not an example of the moral dimensions of the information age identified in the text?
The emergence of giant tech firms that dominate their markets
Which of the following best describes how new information systems can result in legal gray areas?
They result in new situations that are not covered by old laws.
Which of the following forms of protection of intellectual property requires that the property be the subject of a nondisclosure agreement?
Trade secret
Because of their special claims to knowledge, wisdom, and respect, professionals take on special rights and obligations.
True
Ethics describes the principles of right and wrong that can be used by individuals to make choices to guide their behavior.
True
Liability is a feature of political systems and allows individuals to recover damages done to them by others.
True
Routine violations of individual privacy are made easier by advances in data storage.
True
All of the following are technical solutions to protecting user privacy except:
data use policies.
The ethical "no free lunch" rule states that:
if something someone else has created is useful to you, it has value, and you should assume the creator wants compensation for this work.
When a cookie is created during a website visit, it is stored:
on the hard drive of the visitor's computer.
In the ________ model of informed consent, personal information cannot be collected until the consumer specifically agrees that his or her data can be collected.
opt-in
The GDPR created a ________ framework in order to enable U.S. businesses to legally use personal data from EU countries.
safe harbor
Which of the following ethical guidelines suggests that you put yourself in the place of others, and think of yourself as the object of the decision?
the Golden Rule
"Look and feel" copyright infringement lawsuits are concerned with:
the distinction between an idea and its expression.
