Exam 8: Ethics and Technology

The _____ is a private piece of a company's network that is made available to customers or vendor partners using secured access with a unique password.

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

Jordan,a software engineer,is responsible for maintaining the private piece of his company's internet network that is accessible to clients by means of a unique password.This piece of the company's network is known as the _____.

Andrew is informed by his company that he should be open to monitoring as a part of the company's plans to improve productivity.Because of his qualifications and work experience,he knows that he would have no difficulty finding a similar position in another company.Andrew agrees to the policy,knowing that he can switch jobs if the new policy affects his job satisfaction.He has given his company _____ 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.

Information can be sent over fiber-optic cables only after it has been _____.

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.

The _____ argument and the recent availability of capable technology have been driving companies toward creating an Orwellian work environment.

The extranet is a part of a company's website which can only be accessed by its senior executives.

Emily,a website designer,is hired by an organization to create an internal website that contains information meant to be accessed solely by employees.This website is the company's _____.

Cyberliability:

According to Adam Moore,if jobs are plentiful and an employee would have no difficulty in finding another position,then the consent given to a company's monitoring policy is _____ consent.

_____ 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.

Because of the changes that telecommuting has introduced into the work environment:

Which of the following is an argument against creating a "locked-down" work environment?

Discuss vicarious liability and cyberliability.List the top categories of litigation in cyberliability.

Companies can now make vast amounts of information available to employees and customers on their Internet,intranet,and extranet sites.

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

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

Explain how packet-sniffing software and keystroke loggers can be used to monitor employees at the workplace.