Exam 8: Ethics and Technology

Technological advances over the last two decades have made it more difficult to pass the personal data of customers from one place to another.

_____ can be employed to capture every key pressed on a computer keyboard.

The term _____ refers to a company's internal website that contains information for employee access only.

Technological advances over the last two decades have made it possible for some employers to read the personal e-mails that employees send from their workstations.

Thin consent leaves employees with little choice regarding the monitoring of their web activity at the workplace.

_____ 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.

The new capability of _____ has blurred the concept of employees being "at work."

Sending digitized information across fiber-optic wires raises no ethical questions.

Companies can make vast amounts of information available to customers through their _____ sites.

The concept of "at work" has become blurred because of the advances in computer technology and the new capability of telecommuting.

When jobs are plentiful and an employee would have no difficulty finding another position, then the consent given to the monitoring policy of a company is referred to as thin consent.

Using a computer to appropriate the intellectual output of another person is an example of ethical employee behavior.

_____ is a legal concept that holds employers liable for the actions of their employees in their Internet communications to the same degree as if those employers had written those communications on company letterhead.

_____ will create a distinction between thin consent and thick consent according to Adam Moore.

Workplace technology has changed dramatically over the last two decades.

Information can be digitized and transmitted over fiber-optic cables because of the recent advances in technology. What implications does this have?

Resolving the different perspectives on the issue of monitoring employee activity is difficult because:

The implications of vicarious liability are that the party charged is responsible for the actions of his or her _____.

Which of the following statements is true of the advances in workplace technology over the last two decades?

Parties charged with vicarious liability are never in a supervisory role over the person or parties personally responsible for the injury or damage.