IS Chapter 4

Advances in data storage have made routine violation of individual privacy more difficult.

FALSE

Even in today's legal climate, there is little incentive for firms to cooperate with prosecutors investigating financial crimes at their firm.

FALSE

Most American and European privacy law is based on a set of five principles called COPPA.

FALSE

The Copyright Office began registering software programs in the 1990s.

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.

FALSE

The rate of global piracy is approximately 20%.

FALSE

Trade secret law does not protect the actual ideas in a work product.

FALSE

NORA is a:

new data analysis technology that finds hidden connections between data in disparate sources.

The use of computers to combine data from multiple sources and create electronic dossiers of detailed information on individuals is called:

profiling.

In the information age, the obligations that individuals and organizations have concerning rights to intellectual property fall within the moral dimension of:

property rights and obligations.

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:

quality of life.

Accepting the potential costs, duties, and obligations for the decisions you make is referred to as:

responsibility.

The introduction of new information technology has a:

ripple effect, raising new ethical, social, and political issues.

According to the courts, the creation of software, unique concepts, general functional features, and even colors are protectable by copyright law.

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

Which of the following is not one of the practices added in 2010 by the FTC to its framework for privacy?

Firms should limit the length of time that any personal data is stored to six months or less.

Which of the following best describes how new information systems result in legal gray areas?

They result in new situations that are not covered by old laws.

Copyright is the legal protection afforded intellectual property, such as a song, book, or video game.

TRUE

Most Internet businesses do very little to protect the privacy of their customers.

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.

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.

TRUE

All of the following are current key technology trends raising ethical issues except:

increase in multimedia quality.

The most common type of computer-related RSI is CTS.

TRUE

Which of the five moral dimensions of the information age do the central business activities of ChoicePoint raise?

Information rights and obligations