MIS CH4

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? A) HIPAA B) Freedom of Information Act C) COPPA D) Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act E) Privacy Protection Act

A) HIPAA

Which of the following is not one of the current key technology trends that raises ethical issues? A) Increase in data quality B) Advances in networking technology C) Doubling of computing power every 18 months D) Decline in data storage costs E) Advances in data analysis

A) Increase in data quality

which one is not a step in five-step process for ethical analysis: A) Talk only with top management for reasonable options B) Define the conflict or dilemma and identify the higher-order values involved C) Identify the stakeholders D) Identify and clearly describe the facts E) Identify the potential consequences of your options

A) Talk only with top management for reasonable options

Ethical "No Free Lunch" Rule___.

Assumes that virtually all tangible and intangible objects are owned by someone unless there is a specific declaration otherwise

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? A) The slippery-slope rule B) Kant's Categorical Imperative C) The Risk Aversion Principle D) The Golden Rule E) The "no-free-lunch" rule

B) Kant's Categorical Imperative

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? Question 4 options: A) The utilitarian principle B) The Golden Rule C) The no-free-lunch rule D) The risk aversion principle E) Kant's categorical imperative

B) The Golden Rule

Which of the following adjusts copyright laws to the Internet age by making it illegal to circumvent technology-based protections of copyrighted materials? A) Electronic Communications Privacy Act B) Freedom of Information Act C) Digital Millennium Copyright Act D) Computer Software Copyright Act E) Privacy Act

C) Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Which moral standard requires the IS policy should cover Employee e-mail and Internet privacy? A) Property rights and obligations B) Accountability and control C) Information rights and obligations D) Quality of life E) System quality

C) Information rights and obligations

Redesigning and automating business processes can be seen as a double-edged sword because: A) support for middle-management decision making may be offset by poor data quality. B) increases in efficiency may be accompanied by poor data quality. C) increases in efficiency may be accompanied by job losses. D) reliance on technology results in the loss of hands-on knowledge. E) it can concentrate power in the hands of senior executives.

C) increases in efficiency may be accompanied by job losses.

Information systems raise new ethical questions because they create opportunities for: A) Intense social change B) Threatening existing distributions of power, money, rights, and obligations C) New types of crime D) All of above

D) All of above

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

Responsibility