MIS ch4

Question 1

Accountability

Answer 1

The mechanisms for assessing responsibility for decisions made and actions taken.

Question 2

Carpel tunnel syndrome (CTS)

Answer 2

Type of RSI in which pressure on the median nerve through the wrist’s bony carpal tunnel structure produces pain.

Question 3

Computer abuse

Answer 3

The commission of acts involving a computer that may not be illegal but are considered unethical.

Question 4

Computer crime

Answer 4

The commission of illegal acts involving through the use of a computer or against a computer system.

Question 5

Computer vision syndrome (CVS)

Answer 5

eyestrain condition related to computer display screen use; symptoms include headaches, blurred vision, and dry and irritated eyes.

Question 6

Cookies

Answer 6

Tiny file deposited on a computer hard drive when an individual visits certain websites. Used to identify the visitor and track to the website.

Question 7

Copyright

Answer 7

A statutory grant that protects creators of intellectual property against copying by others for any purpose for a minimum of 70 years.

Question 8

Digital divide

Answer 8

Large diosparities in access to computers and the Internet among different social groups and different locations.

Question 9

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

Answer 9

Adjust copyright, laws to the internet age by making it illegal to make, distribute, or use devices that circumvent technology-based protections of copyrighted materials.

Question 10

Due process

Answer 10

A process in which laws are well-known and understood and there is the ability to appeal to higher authorities to ensure that laws are applied correctly.

Question 11

Ethical no-free-lunch rule

Answer 11

Assumption that all tangible and intangible objects are owned by someone else, unless there is a specific declaration otherwise, and that the creator wants compensation for this work.

Question 12

Ethics

Answer 12

Principles of right and wrong what can be used by individuals acting as free moral agents to make choices to guide their behavior.

Question 13

Fair information Practices (FIP)

Answer 13

A set of principles originally set forth in 1973 that governs the collection and use of information about individuals and forms the basis of most US and European privacy laws.

Question 14

General Data protection regulation (GDPR)

Answer 14

Legislation effective May 25, 2018 that updates and unifies data privacy laws across the European Union, focusing on making businesses more than transparant and expanding the privacy rights of data subjects.

Question 15

Golden Rule

Answer 15

Putting oneself in the place of others as the object of a decision.

Question 16

Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative

Answer 16

A principle that states that if an action is not right for everyone to take it is not right for anyone.

Question 17

Information rights

Answer 17

The rights that individuals and organizations have with respect to information that pertains to themselves.

Question 18

Informed consent

Answer 18

Consent given with knowledge of all the facts needed to make a rational decision.

Question 19

Intellectual property

Answer 19

Intangible property created by individuals or corporations that is subject to protections under trade secret, copyright, and patent law.

Question 20

Liability

Answer 20

The existence of laws that permit individuals to recover the damages done to them by other actors, systems, or organizations.

Question 21

Nonobvious relationship awareness (NORA)

Answer 21

Technology that can find obscure hidden connections between people or other entities by analyzing information from many different sources to correlate relationships.

Question 22

Opt-in

Answer 22

model of informed consent permitting prohibiting an organization from collecting any personal information unless the individual specifically takes action to approve information collection and use.

Question 23

Opt-out

Answer 23

Model of informed consent permitting the collection of personal information until the consumer specifically request that the data not be collected.

Question 24

Patent

Answer 24

A legal document that grants the owner an exclusive monopoly on the ideas behind an invention for 20 years: designed to ensure that inventors of new machines or methods are rewarded for their labor while making widespread use of their inventions.

Question 25

Privacy

Answer 25

The claim of individuals to be left alone, free from surveillance of interference from other individuals, organizations, or the state.

Question 26

Profiling

Answer 26

The use of computers to combine data from multiple sources and create electronics dossiers of detailed information on individuals

Question 27

Repetitive stress injury(RSI)

Answer 27

Occupational disease that occurs when muscle groups are forced through repetitive actions with high-impact loads or thousand of repetitions with low-impact loads.

Question 28

Responsibility

Answer 28

Accepting the potential costs, duties, and obligations for the decisions one makes.

Question 29

Risk aversion Principle

Answer 29

Principle that one should take the action that produces the least harm or incurs the least cost.

Question 30

Safe harbor

Answer 30

Private self-regulating policy and enforcement mechanism that meets the objectives of government regulations but does not involve government regulation or enforcement.

Question 31

Spam

Answer 31

Unsolicited commercial email.

Question 32

Spyware

Answer 32

Technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge.

Question 33

Trade secret

Answer 33

Any intellectual work or product used for a business purpose that can be classified as belonging to that business, provided internally it is not based on information in the public domain.

Question 34

Utilitarian principle

Answer 34

Principle that assumes one can put values in rank order of utility and understand the consequences of various courses of action.

Question 35

Web beacons

Answer 35

Tiny objects invisibly embedded in email messages and web pages that are designed to monitor the behavior of the user visiting a website or sending email.