Wiley Chapter 3

Which of the following data is NOT currently collected by usage-based car insurance companies?

GPS

You can check your credit report annually for free through TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian. This allows you to catch signs of identity theft early and note any problems in your credit reports. This is an example of an ethical issue that falls into the category of ________.

Privacy

Major scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco led to the passage of which law in 2002?

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Code of Ethics

a collection of principles intended to guide decision making by members of the organization

Liability

a legal concept that gives individuals the right to recover the damages done to them by other individuals, organizations, or systems

Privacy Policies (codes)

an organization's guidelines for protecting the privacy of its customers, clients, and employees

Accountability

determining who is responsible for actions that were taken.

rights approach

ethical action is the one that best protects and respects the moral rights of the affected parties

Utilitarian Approach

ethical action is the one that provides the most good or does the least harm.

fairness approach

ethical actions treat all human beings equally, or, if unequally, then fairly, based on some defensible standard

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires publicly held companies to implement _________ controls; it was passed to address the _________ crisis.

financial; Enron

common good approach

highlights the interlocking relationships that underlie all societies. This approach argues that respect and compassion for all others is the basis for ethical actions (laws)

Responsibility

means that you accept the consequences of your decisions and actions.

Opt-Out Model of Informed Consent

permits the company to collect personal information until the customer specifically requests that the data not be collected

opt-in model of informed consent

prohibits an organization from collecting any personal information unless the customer specifically authorizes it.

deontology approach

the morality of an action is based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules, rather than based on the consequences of that action

Ethics

the principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions

Privacy

the right to be left alone and to be free of unreasonable personal intrusions

Information Privacy

the right to determine when, and to what extent, information about you can be gathered or communicated to others

Tagging your friends' pictures on Facebook will not compromise their privacy as long as you obtain their permission.

False

The law basically does not support an employer's right to read electronic mail and other electronic documents.

False

Using apps on your smart phones that broadcast your location to others is a harmless act.

False

_________ is the tenet of ethics that refers to determining who is responsible for actions that were taken.

Accountability

Ethics deals strictly with legal interpretations of what is right and wrong.

False

If your employer clearly states in the employee handbook that work email addresses should be used for official business only and then proceeds to read all the emails you send and receive, he or she is guilty of a legal violation.

False

Which fundamental tenet of ethics brought Volkswagen's "Diesel Dupe" into the light?

Liability

Companies prefer the _________ model of informed consent.

Opt-Out

Content that is illegal in one country can still be legal in other countries.

True

Ethics is a branch of philosophy that deals with what is considered to be right and wrong.

True

India purchased The StingRay to monitor the calls of opposition-party politicians.

True

The Impact Team claimed it hacked Ashley Madison because the company charged for deleting profiles that it never deleted.

True

The legal concept that gives individuals the right to recover damages done to them by other individuals, organizations, or systems is known as liability.

True

The right to privacy is recognized today in all the US states and by the federal government, either by statute or in common law.

True

Minimizing the organization's carbon footprint and otherwise striving for "green IT" is an example of a _________ approach.

Utilitarian

Which of the following is a privacy issue?

What information about oneself should an individual be required to reveal to others?