MIS Ch. 4
Any unsolicited e-mail is legally considered spam.
False
In white-collar fraud, information systems are most typically used as a means to hide financial evidence of crimes.
True
Most Internet businesses do very little to protect the privacy of their customers.
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
According to the courts, in the creation of software, unique concepts, general functional features, and even colors are protectable by copyright law.
False
Advances in data storage have made routine violation of individual privacy more difficult.
False
Data gathered by online behavioral tracking firms is limited to the user's behavior on a single Web site.
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
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
Copyright is the legal protection afforded intellectual property, such as a song, book, or video game.
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
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
The most common type of computer-related RSI is CTS.
True
