IS 340 Chapter 4
The Online Privacy Alliance:
-encourages self-regualtion to develop a set of privacy guidelines for its members
Which of the following is NOT one of the five steps discussed in the chapter as a process for analyzing an ethical issue?
Assign responsibility
Which of the following protects the authors of a book from having their work copied by others?
Copyright law
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
Advances in data storage have made routine violation of individual privacy more difficult.
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.
False
Which of the following statements about Flash cookies is NOT true?
Flash cookies are installed only at the user's request
Which of the following is NOT protected by copyright law?
Machines
TRUSTe is an example of which of the following?
Online seal program
________ grants the owner an exclusive monopoly on the ideas behind an invention for 20 years.
Patent Law
A web beacon is a tiny object embedded in email messages and web pages that is designed to monitor online internet uses behavior.
True
Copyright is the legal protection afforded intellectual property, such as a song, book, or video game.
True
Ethics refers to the principles of right and wrong that can be used by individuals to make choices to guide their behavior.
True
Liability refers to the existence of laws that permit individuals to recover damages done to them by other actors, systems, or organizations.
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 have special rights and obligations because of their claims to knowledge, wisdom, and respect.
True
The feature of social institutions that means mechanisms are in place to determine responsibility for an action is called:
accountability
Digital media differs from a physical book in all of the following ways except:
ease of establishing uniqueness
The ethical "no free lunch" rule states that:
if something someone else has created is useful to you, it has value, and you should assume the creator wants compensation for this work.
When a cookie is created during a Web site visit, it is stored:
on the hard drive of the visitor's computer
The use of computers to combine data from multiple sources and create digital dossiers of detailed information on individuals is called:
profiling
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
