MIS Chapter 4
Which of the following resulted in a Christmas Eve outage for millions of Netflix customers?
A failure of Amazon's cloud computing service
Advertisers use ________ in order to display more relevant ads based on a user's search and browsing history.
Behavioral targeting
Which of the following is the most common reason that business systems fail?
Data quality
Which of the following adjusts copyright laws to the Internet age by making it illegal to circumvent technology-based protections of copyrighted materials?
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Which of the following terms refers to significant disparities in access to computers and the Internet among different social groups and different locations?
Digital divide
CVS refers to:
Eyestrain related to computer display screen use.
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 is a primary drawback to the "do anything anywhere" work environment?
It blurs the traditional boundaries between work and family time.
What is not a feature of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
It prevents firms from using cookies.
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
Which of the following is a data analysis technology that finds hidden connections between data in disparate sources?
NORA
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
________ means that you accept the potential costs and obligations for the decisions you make.
Responsibility
The ________ is a feature of the GDPR that allows individuals to have their personal information removed from social network and search sites.
Right to be forgotten
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
According to ________, you should take the action that produces the least harm.
The risk aversion principle
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.
When a cookie is created during a website visit, it is stored:
On the hard drive of the visitor's computer.
________ is a feature of social institutions that means mechanisms are in place to determine responsibility for an action.
Accountability
Which of the following were involved in what has been called the patent trial of the century?
Apple and Samsung
All of the following are steps in the process for analyzing an ethical issue except:
Assigning responsibility
________ 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 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
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
Redesigning and automating business processes can be seen as a double-edged sword because:
Increases in efficiency may be accompanied by job losses.
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.
