Exam 8: Ethics and Technology

Which of the following is true of cyberliability?

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

The _____ is a company's internal website,containing information for employee access only.

Thin consent is based on the assumption that the employee can easily find another job.

_____ is a work arrangement that enables employees to log into their company's network via a secure gateway such as a virtual private network.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of technological advances in a workplace?

Because of recent advances in technology,information can be digitized and transmitted over fiber-optic cables.What privacy-related issue does this raise for the customer?

With employers being able to monitor every keystroke on a computer,track every website visited,and record every call made by employees,the workplace is beginning to display Orwellian characteristics.

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.

According to Adam Moore,which of the following is true of thin consent?

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

Advances in technology and the popularity of telecommuting now define the availability of employees by their _____.

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.

Video surveillance,under federal law,is acceptable where the camera focuses on publicly accessible areas.

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

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

Packet-sniffing software can be used to monitor employees' private accounts,as long as they are accessed on workplace networks or phone lines.

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

Workplace technology has changed dramatically over the last two decades.

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