Chapter 4 Quiz

________ is a feature of social institutions that means mechanisms are in place to determine responsibility for an action.

Accountability

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?

HIPPA

What is not a feature of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?

It prevents firms from using cookies.

Which of the following is not protected by copyright law?

Machines

When a cookie is created during a website visit, it is stored:

On the hard drive of the visitors 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 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

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