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Student Objectives

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

  1. Analyze the relationships among ethical, social, and political issues that are raised by information systems.
  2. Identify the main moral dimensions of an information society and specific principles for conduct that can be used to guide ethical decisions.
  3. Evaluate the impact of contemporary information systems and the Internet on the protection of individual privacy and intellectual property.
  4. Assess how information systems have affected everyday life.


 This activity contains 35 questions.

Question 1.
Which moral dimension of the information age involves cultural values and practices?

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Question 2.
Using computers to combine data from multiple sources and creating electronic dossiers of detailed information on individuals is called


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Question 3.
Correlating relationships to find obscure hidden connections in disparate databases and other sources is called


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Question 4.
A basic ethical concept that means mechanisms are in place to determine who took responsible action or who is responsible for certain actions is

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Question 5.
Most American and European privacy law is based on a regime called


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Question 6.
Tiny files deposited on a computer hard drive when a user visits certain Web sites are called


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Question 7.
The ________ model of informed consent permits the collection of personal information until the consumer specifically requests that data not be collected.

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Question 8.
An intellectual work product used for a business purpose is classified as a ________ provided it is not based on information in the public domain.

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Question 9.
Which law protects creators of intellectual property for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years after the author's death?

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Question 10.
Which law grants the owner an exclusive monopoly on the ideas behind an invention for 20 years?

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Question 11.
The commission of acts involving a computer that may not be illegal but are considered unethical is known as


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Question 12.
Which of the following is not a principal source of poor system performance?

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Question 13.
Which of the following makes it illegal to circumvent technology-based protections of copyrighted materials?

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Question 14.
The single largest source of repetitive stress injuries is


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Question 15.
The most common kind of computer-related repetitive stress injury is


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Question 16.
In today's new legal environment, managers who violate the law and are convicted will most likely spend time in prison.

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Question 17.
Information systems don't necessarily threaten existing distributions of power, money, rights, and obligations.

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Question 18.
Political institutions do not require a demonstration of real harm before they develop new laws governing information systems.

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Question 19.
Advances in data storage techniques and rapidly declining storage costs have been responsible for the multiplying databases on individuals.

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Question 20.
Accountability means that you accept the potential costs, duties, and obligations for the decisions you make.

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Question 21.
At present, most U.S. federal privacy laws apply only to the federal government and regulate very few areas of the private sector.

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Question 22.
A safe harbor requires government regulation and enforcement.


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Question 23.
Most Internet businesses do little to protect customer privacy.

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Question 24.
Copyright law protects both the underlying ideas behind a work and the manifestation in a work.

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Question 25.
The Internet has made it much easier to protect intellectual property.

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Question 26.
Internet service providers (ISPs) are required to take down sites of copyright infringers that they are hosting once they are notified of the problem.

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Question 27.
Lower-level employees may be empowered to make minor decisions, but the key policy decisions are still very centralized.

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Question 28.
Simply accessing a computer system without authorization or with intent to do harm, even by accident, is now a federal crime.

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Question 29.
Repetitive stress injuries due to computer use are unavoidable.

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Question 30.
According to experts, humans working continuously with computers come to expect other humans to behave like computers.

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