Exam 8: Ethics and Technology

Vicarious _____ is a legal concept that means a party may be held responsible for injury or damage even when he or she was not actively involved in an incident.

One of the arguments cited by employers for the use of web-monitoring at the workplace is the concept of vicarious liability.

According to Adam Moore, when an employee consents to being monitored by a company because he or she has no choice, the employee has given _____ consent.

The argument over privacy at work has traditionally centered on:

Which of the following actions does the Computer Ethics Institute consider unethical?

From an employer's perspective, monitoring an employee's computer activity at the workplace is necessary to map their productivity during work hours.

The new technological capability that allows employees to work from locations other than their office and log into their company's network remotely is known as telecommuting.

Advances in technology make it harder for employers to assign work to their employees outside the workplace.

With advances in technology, the availability of employees in the business environment is no longer defined by their accessibility.

The ability to send digitized information over _____ led to the establishment of call centers.

Information can be digitized and transmitted over fiber-optic cables because of the recent advances in technology. Which ethical obligation of this new capability is now being realized?

Which of the following is true of the changes that telecommuting has introduced into the work environment?

Which of the following actions does the Computer Ethics Institute consider ethical?

The legal concept of _____ holds employers liable for the actions of their employees through Internet communications to the same degree as if they had written those communications on company letterhead.

The availability of ongoing technological advancements has made it easier to determine precisely where work ends and personal life begins.

Employers feel it necessary to monitor employees at the workplace because they have an obligation to their stakeholders to operate as efficiently as possible.

The term _____ refers to a private piece of a company's Internet network that is made available to customers and/or vendor partners on the basis of secured access by unique password.

Explain the differences between thin and thick consent.

Vicarious liability is a legal concept that means a party may be held responsible for injury or damage only if he or she were actively involved in an incident.

Cyberliability applies the existing legal concept of liability to the field of computers.