Exam 14: Privacy and Ethical Considerations in Information Management

This is a text message that is stored on a user's computer by a Web server that helps trace the user's browsing habits.

This is a growing service designed to help individuals and companies clean up their online presence so that a search for their name produces favorable results.

What principles, developed in 2000 by the US Department of Commerce (DOC) in consultation with the European Commission, allow U.S. companies to be placed on a list maintained by the DOC?

"Who owns information?" and "What are the just and fair prices for its exchange?" are part of this ethical issue:

Match each normative theory of business ethics to its primary objective.

The question "What information does a person or an organization have a right or a privilege to obtain?" is part of this ethical issue.

Information privacy guidelines should come from what level in a company?

Google Flu Trends aggregates personal search data in order to estimate world-wide flu activity. Google's site has drawn criticism due to the sharing of users' online behavior without getting their consent. This, in essence, violates the user's right to:

The social contract theory is made up of two distinct components - social welfare and _________.

Questions like "Who is responsible for the reliability of information?" and "Who will be accountable for errors in the information?" are part of this ethical issue.

"Digital natives" are uncomfortable building relationships on the Internet because they understand the consequences of sharing information publically.

A manager who primarily focuses on the shareholders of the corporation rather than all of the vested parties in the businesses operations and activities is practicing which theory of normative business ethics?

Green computing benefits _____ which is sometimes referred to as "People, Planet, Profit".

Over time it becomes easier to maintain the accuracy of information.

This act of 1996 is designed to safeguard the electronic exchange of patient records in the health care industry.

In today's digital word, individuals can control their privacy through choice, ______ , and correction.

This is the term used to describe ethical dilemmas that arise with the development and application of IT.

Match the critical question with the information control issue it addresses.

In the chapter, there is the statement, "Internet companies are in business for the money and hence they really would prefer to keep their customers in the dark about how their personal data is being used to generate profits". Assuming this statement is true, with which ethical theory would you say these Internet companies are most aligned?

Target found out a teenager was pregnant by (1) ________ and revealed that fact to her dad by (2) _______