Business and society Chapter 13

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The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 requires:

Commercial websites to collect a verifiable form of consent from the parent or guardian of any user below the age of 13 website operators to post user privacy laws website operators to adhere to federal restrictions, even if the website is operated from outside the United States all of the above

This international gathering brought together leaders from the United States and 27 European countries to address the global nature of cyber attacks:

Data privacy day

This act makes it a crime to circumvent anti-piracy measures built into most commercial software agreement between the manufacturers and their users:

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

In the United Kingdom, offenders of software piracy and those who bridge intellectual property rights face:

Fines up to 50000 pounds (nearly 80,000) and/ or a prison sentence of up to 10 years

These individuals hack into government or corporate computer networks and then release information to try to embarrass those organizations or gain leverage against these organizations

Hacktivist

This term describes sensors and actuators that are embedded in physical objects from roadways to peacemakers and are linked through wired and wireless networks

Internet of Things

Intellectual property refers to:

Protecting one's ideas, concepts, & symbolic creations special laws protecting copyrights, patents, and trademarks prohibiting the downloading of commercial software or video games all of the above

The Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry's domestic losses came from illegal downloads of movies by:

college students and recent graduates

The identification of human genes is critical to:

early diagnosis of life threatening diseases new ways to prevent illnesses development of drug therapies All of the above

Over time the role of the CIO:

has changed dramatically, becoming more integrated into the overall strategic direction of the firm

In 2008 the F. D. A. declared that food from cloned animals and their offspring was safe to eat, but:

impose a voluntary ban on the sale of cloned animals

In 2005, the United Nations approved a declaration that

prohibited all forms of human cloning "in as much as cloning is incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life"

In some economically developed countries and most developing countries around the world genetically modified food was

welcomed as a way to increase crop yields

According to the Center for Responsible nanotechnology how many separate and severe risks are associated with nanotechnology

11

The number of Americans who actively use mobile-banking services in 2009 and dust were increasingly vulnerable to attack games was

12 million

Loss of annual sales due to software piracy by software companies was estimated to be:

63.5 billion

In a survey of 583 US companies, how many wear briefs at least once by hackers over the past year?

90 Percent

In 2011 this region contains the highest commercial value of unlicensed (pirated) software

Asia Pacific

In a study of CIOs from around the world, McKenzie and company found that most CIOs reported to their

Chief executive officer

Piracy was most severe in this country where the illegal software market was worth nearly 9 billion in 2011

China

The "Perfect Citizen" program, monitored by the National Security Agency, is designed to protect against cyber assaults focused on

Electricity grids and nuclear power plants

A hijacked computer that can be remote-controlled by the hacker to respond to the hackers commands is called a:

Zombie

According to Bill joy, Sun Microsystems chief scientist, the 21st century technology

are so powerful they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and abuses

The application of engineering to create materials on a molecular or atomic scale is

nanotechnology


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