Exam 12: Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems

The process in law-governed societies in which laws are known and understood and there is an ability to appeal to higher authorities to ensure that the laws are applied correctly is called:

Which of the following is not one of the five steps discussed in the chapter as a process for analyzing an ethical issue?

Discuss at least three key technology trends that raise ethical issues.Give an example of an ethical or moral impact connected to each one.

Despite the passage of several laws defining and addressing computer crime,accessing a computer system without authorization is not yet a federal crime.

The Utilitarian Principle asks you to put yourself in the place of others,and think of yourself as the object of the decision.

Re-designing and automating business processes can be seen as a double-edged sword because:

The ethical "no free lunch" rule states that:

It is not feasible for companies to produce error-free software because:

Descartes' rule of change,that if an action cannot be taken repeatedly,it is not right to take at all,is also known as:

All of the following are current key technology trends raising ethical issues except:

What are the major issues concerning privacy in the information age? Do you believe the need for homeland security should overrule some of the personal privacy and information rights we have previously taken for granted? Why or why not?

Intellectual property can best be described as:

List and describe the five moral dimensions that are involved in political,social,and ethical issues.Which do you think will be the most difficult for society to deal with? Support your opinion.

"Look and feel" copyright infringement lawsuits are concerned with:

Which U.S.act restricts the information the federal government can collect and regulates what they can do with the information?

The Copyright Office began registering software programs in the 1990s.

A colleague of yours frequently takes,for his own personal use,small amounts of office supplies noting that the loss to the company is minimal.You counter that if everyone were to take office supplies the loss would no longer be minimal.Your rationale expresses which historical ethical principle?

According to the courts,the creation of software,unique concepts,general functional features,and even colors are protectable by copyright law.

The drawback to copyright protection is that the underlying ideas behind the work are not protected,only their reproduction in a product.

The "do anything anywhere" computing environment can: