Final Flashcards
You are an IT professional who works at a dental officeA coworker who is insurance forms for patients is behind schedule and wants to copy a dozen patient records and forms to a tablet to work home in the evening . Your coworker asks you to copy the files to the tablet. Which of the following ACM of Ethics imperatives will be of the greatest concern to you in this situation?
Access computing and communication resources only when authorized to do so.
You have been hired to create a website for an online nature magazine. The editors bring you hundreds of photographs to put on the website. Many of them are photographs taken by the editors and writers for the magazine. However, there are many others that were taken by other people. The editors tell you to worry about copyright issues for any of the photographs because all of the photographs are already available on the Internet. Which of these options is the most ethical?
Only use photographs for which the editors have documented permission.
You work for ABC, a successful software company, with a large customer base. XYZ, a small rival startup company, wanting to acquire more customers contacts you and offers you money to give them ABC’s customer information
As a computing professional which stakeholders should you be ethically concerned about when making this decision ?
Yourself, company ABC, ABC’s customers
Have been working sixty hours a week and earning a relatively low salary. The entire development team will be sharing in the profits once the new software is launched. The owner has just returned from an industry tradeshow and has learned about its consumer trade show that would be perfect for launching the new product. The product manager meets with you and the other developers on the team and tells you that the owner is very excited and determined to relieve the product at the consumer show which is only four months away. It will take at least two months to prepare the marketing and packaging for the product. You are told you have two months to test and fix the problems. Which of these options is the most ethical.
Get as much testing done in two months as possible, launch the product at the trade show and explain that further testing will be needed.
Assume that it’s Friday night and you are working on an assignment requiring use of Microsoft Office. The assignment is due on Monday morning at 8:00 am. The lab is closing until Monday at 8:00 am and you are not finished with the assignment. The assistant offers to give you a self-made copy of the MS Office software as well as the license key. You have a computer at home, but you do not own a copy of the software. What is the ethically appropriate course of action?
Refuse the offer of the copyrighted software and utilize alternative software to complete the assignment
You are a programmer working for a large successful automobile manufacturer. The company is having trouble meeting the EPA Clean Air Act emissions standards for Diesel engines. Your boss tells you that the company wants you to write software that will intentionally program the turbocharged direct injection diesel engines to activate their emissions controls only during laboratory emissions testing. This software will cause the nitrogen oxide output to meet EPA emissions standards during regulatory testing while allowing them to emit up to 40 times more nitrogen in real-world driving. You are told that you will be given promotion and a very large pay raise if you write this software. If you do not write this you will be transferred to a different unit and you will not be eligible for an annual bonus. In either case your boss has asked you to never discuss this software with anyone inside or outside the company. Which of these the most ethical?
Refuse to swear to never discuss the software fix and inform the EPA.
Mr.J wrote the first serious book on the problem of stuttering about 50 years ago. The book is out of print and Mr. J has diedMr. son has hired you to create a website honoring his father. Since the book is no longer available for purchaseMr. I’s son has asked you to scan and upload the entire book to this website. He wants this classic work to be available without cost to all speech pathologistsThe publisher held the copyright in effect)but another company bought out the original publishing company The son does not know who has the copyright now . As a computing professional which of the following fair use guidelines should weigh most heavily in your decision whether or not to upload the entire book to the website
The amount and substantiality of the portion to be used
You work for ABC, a successful software company , with a large customer basea small rival company, wanting to acquire more customers, contacts you and offers you money to give them information Which of the following options is the most ethical in this situation?
Refuse the offer and inform your employer that company XYZ contacted you
Suppose you are an independent contractor who has been hired by a company to work on a projectYou’ve agreed to work with the company for the duration of the projectNot long after start of the project, another company contacts you about working on its latest project. The new project will conflict with the original project timeline. However, the new company is offering more money You will need to decide whether to finish the current project or not. Which of the following ACM Code of Ethics imperatives is most relevant to this situation ?
Honor contracts, agreements, and assigned responsibilities
As a member of a software development team tasked with writing a proprietary (not open source or freely licensed), information system to manage and maintain customer purchases, you have been asked by your project leader to write a code module that will return a list of all products purchased by a customer within a specified time period. A friend of yours , while in college, wrote a similar piece of software and she licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial software license. Which of the following represents the most ethical choice relative to using your friend’s software?
Do not use your friend’s software because it would be used within the proprietary software that your company plans to sell
