Exam 12: Global Technology, the Natural Environment and Sustainability

The best privacy policies include "opt-in" policy that requires the firm to notify the customer of how the information is being used.

________ is often referred to as the application of science to business.

Which statements about ozone depletion, global warming, and the endangerment of biological diversity are true?

What are GM foods, and how do they affect society?

Define ozone depletion and discuss how it affects the earth.

Which statements about sustainability are true?

The _________ is the prevention of solar heat absorbed by the atmosphere from returning to space, creating global warming and climate change problems.

Discuss some of the commonly recognized drawbacks of the increase of technology in today's society.

The richest biodiversity appears in rain forests, the number of which has been increasing because people are turning farms back into forests.

________ combines biology and technology to develop and produce business products.

The new industry of biotechnology has created great entrepreneurial business opportunities for health care, pharmaceutical, and agriculture firms to profitably increase our natural lifespan.

Startups and small companies are not using IT to run their businesses using e-commerce and m-commerce because of the start-up costs and security threats.

The company's ________ is responsible for ensuring privacy and information security.

"Not in my back yard" (NIMBY) illustrates attitudes and behaviors that deny responsibility for the misuse of our natural environment and for pollution.

Which of the following is not considered by many to be a side effect of technology?

________ is a substance released into the environment that has a negative effect on the environment and society.

Companies do not collect, save, swap, and sell personal information through e-commerce.

The U.S. National ________ requires all federal agencies to prepare environmental impact statements for any proposals for legislation and other major federal action that would affect the quality of the human environment.

________ is a performance measure relating product and service outputs to resource inputs. In simple terms, productivity is producing more with less.

The ________ leads and supports self-regulatory initiatives that created an environment of trust and that foster the protection of individuals' privacy online and in electronic commerce.