ch.4 IS
TRUE
Copyright is the legal protection afforded intellectual property, such as a song, book, or video game.
firms should limit the length of time that any personal data is stored to six months or less
30) Which of the following is not one of the practices added in 2010 by the FTC to its framework for privacy?
increase in multimedia quality
All of the following are current key technology trends raising ethical issues except:
FALSE
Any unsolicited e-mail is legally considered spam.
FALSE
Despite the passage of several laws defining and addressing computer crime, accessing a computer system without authorization is not yet a federal crime.
FALSE
Even in today's legal climate, there is little incentive for firms to cooperate with prosecutors investigating financial crimes at their firm.
property rights and obligations
In the information age, the obligations that individuals and organizations have concerning rights to intellectual property fall within the moral dimension of:
quality of life
In the information age, the obligations that individuals and organizations have regarding the preservation of existing values and institutions fall within the moral dimension of:
FALSE
Most American and European privacy law is based on a set of five principles called COPPA.
TRUE
Most Internet businesses do very little to protect the privacy of their customers.
new data analysis technology that finds hidden connections between data in disparate sources.
NORA is a:
TRUE
Privacy is the right to be left alone when you want to be, without surveillance or interference from other individuals or organizations.
TRUE
Professionals take on special rights and obligations because of their special claims to knowledge, wisdom, and respect.
TRUE
Spyware is software that comes hidden in downloaded applications and can track your online movements.
TRUE
Technostress is a computer-related malady whose symptoms include fatigue.
FALSE
The Copyright Office began registering software programs in the 1990s.
TRUE
The European Parliament has passed a ban on unsolicited commercial messaging.
TRUE
The drawback to copyright protection is that the underlying ideas behind the work are not protected, only their reproduction in a product.
ripple effect, raising ethical, social, and political issues.
The introduction of new information technology has a:
FALSE
The key concepts in patent law are originality, novelty, and value.
FALSE
The last step in analyzing an ethical issue should be to identify the stakeholders - people who have a vested interest in the outcome of the decision.
TRUE
The most common type of computer-related RSI is CTS.
FALSE
The rate of global piracy is approximately 20%.
profiling
The use of computers to combine data from multiple sources and create electronic dossiers of detailed information on individuals is called:
FALSE
Trade secret law does not protect the actual ideas in a work product.
B They result in new situations that are not covered by old laws.
Which of the following best describes how new information systems result in legal gray areas?
responsibility
Accepting the potential costs, duties, and obligations for the decisions you make is referred to as:
FALSE
According to the courts, the creation of software, unique concepts, general functional features, and even colors are protectable by copyright law.
FALSE
Advances in data storage have made routine violation of individual privacy more difficult.
information rights and obligations
Which of the five moral dimensions of the information age do the central business activities of ChoicePoint raise?
