ITC Chapter 4

________ 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

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

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.

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

It prevents firms from using cookies.

________ are not held liable for the messages they transmit

Regulated common carriers

Which of the following is not an example of the moral dimensions of the information age identified in the text

The emergence of giant tech firms that dominate their markets

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

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.

Advertisers use ________ in order to display more relevant ads based on a user's search and browsing history

behavioral targeting

The Network Advertising Initiative is an industry association that:

encourages self-regulation to develop a set of privacy guidelines for its members.

CVS refers to

eyestrain related to computer display screen use.

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.

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

on the hard drive of the visitor's computer.

"Look and feel" copyright infringement lawsuits are concerned with:

the distinction between an idea and its expression

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

Which of the following resulted in a Christmas Eve outage for millions of Netflix customers

A failure of Amazon's cloud computing service

________ 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 laws apply to actions by the federal government except the

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

Which of the following is not a U.S. federal law affecting private institutions

Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act

Which of the following is not one of the current key technology trends that raises ethical issues?

Increase in data quality

Which of the five moral dimensions of the information age do the central business activities of DoubleClick involve

Information rights and obligations

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.

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.

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 not protected by copyright law?

Machines

FIP principles are based on a belief in which of the following?

Mutuality of interest between the record holder and the individual

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

________ grants the owner exclusive ownership of the ideas behind an invention for 20 years.

Patent law

Which of the five moral dimensions of the information age does the weakening of boundaries between work and family life involve

Quality of life

Which of the following occurs when muscle groups are forced through tens of thousands of repetitions under low-impact loads

RSI

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 statements about spam is not true?

Spamming is more tightly regulated in the United States than in Europe

Which of the following is not true about the changes to EU data protection rules enacted in the GDPR

The new rules do not allow consumers to have their data removed from company servers.

Which of the following forms of protection of intellectual property requires that the property be the subject of a nondisclosure agreement

Trade Secret

All of the following are technical solutions to protecting user privacy except

data use policies

Digital media differs from a physical book in all of the following ways except

ease of establishing uniqueness.

Digital media differs from a physical book in all of the following ways except:

ease of establishing uniqueness.

The U.S. CAN-SPAM Act

requires commercial email senders to identify themselves.

According to ________, you should take the action that produces the least harm

the risk aversion principle

The FIP principle of Notice/Awareness states that

websites must disclose their information practices before collecting data.

All of the following are steps in the process for analyzing an ethical issue except:

Assigning responsibility

Which of the following statements about cookies is not true

Cookies are installed only at the user's request.

Which of the following protects the authors of a book from having their work copied by others

Copyright law

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

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

NORA

What percent of global Internet users use Google Search and other Google services such as YouTube

Nearly 80 percent

The NAI is an industry association formed to help with which of the following?

Online Privacy Issues

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 regarding the preservation of existing values and institutions fall within which of the following moral dimensions of the information age

Quality of Life

_______ means that you accept the potential costs and obligations for the decisions you make

Responsibility

Which ethical rule states that if an action cannot be taken repeatedly, it is not right to take at all?

Slippery-slope rule

________ allows an organization to collect personal information without the user's explicit consent.

The opt-out model