Deck 14: Ethical Risks and Responsibilities of IT Innovations

Question 1

Examples of civil rights are each of the following except ________.

A)freedom of the press
B)right to vote
C)right to any speech
D)right to equality in public places

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Google's engineers realized the cars could be used for ________ by sniffing out and mapping the physical location of the world's Wi-Fi routers.

A)wardriving
B)mobile hacking
C)snooping
D)drive-by recording

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following best describes the views and arguments about the consequences of wearing Google Glass?

A)Google Glass is a benefit to society because it improves personal security and safety.
B)Technology is inherently neutral.
C)Google Glass is a danger to society and Google has a responsibility to address this issue.
D)There are diverse views and arguments about the consequences of wearing Google Glass.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Private content that uninhibited teenagers with bad judgment had posted online ________.

A)will be archived and inaccessible after 12 months
B)is not retained
C)cannot be made to disappear
D)can only be purged by the individual,according to the site's removal procedures

Question 5

Social recruitment refers to use of social media to find,screen,and select job candidates.Often it involves searching information ________.

A)the job candidate did not want considered
B)that is illegal to use in the hiring process
C)that violates the EEOC or SEC
D)A and B

Question 6

3D-bioprinted human organs may be subject to ________.

A)conflicting healthcare regulations
B)conflicting religious,political,moral,and financial interests
C)skills of bio-engineers
D)technology limitations

Question 7

Which is not a step that companies can take to balance the competing risks of negligent hiring and social discrimination?

A)Hire investigation companies to do thorough searches of candidates' backgrounds.
B)Let candidates themselves disclose information found on social media.
C)A consistent and well-documented process is needed to ensure and show compliance if there is an EEO employment investigation.
D)Make sure recruiters do not pressure applicants to disclose protected information via social media by requiring them to disclose passwords or relax privacy settings for purposes of review by the employer.

Question 8

________ are characteristics that have been identified by law that cannot be used in the hiring process.

A)Civil rights
B)Protected classes
C)EEOC practices
D)Negligent hiring

Question 9

Types of risky behaviors of free and paid mobile apps include all of the following except ________.

A)Location tracking
B)Accessing the device's address book or contact list
C)Decrypting messages
D)Sharing data with ad networks and analytics companies

Question 10

According to the United Nations Guiding Principles on business and human rights,if Glass distracts drivers and causes traffic accidents,then __________.

A)Google has a responsibility to address this issue and to inform users that there may be social risks from using their products in plain language.
B)Glass users have the social responsibility to not use the device while driving similar to rules about smartphone use while driving.
C)Lawmakers will have greater authority to determine where the driver or tech companies are responsible for social harms.
D)All are true.

Question 11

________ occurs when the civil rights of an individual are denied or interfered with because of their membership in a particular group or class

A)Harassment
B)Prejudice
C)Negligent hiring
D)Discrimination

Question 12

To the extent that employers conduct a social media background check on job candidates,best practices are all of the following except _________.

A)Use only publicly available information.
B)Have either a third party or a designated person within the company who does not make hiring decisions do the background check.
C)Limit access to private information by friending someone.
D)Do not request username or passwords for social media accounts.

Question 13

Which is not a protected class?

A)Age
B)Education
C)Genetic information
D)Religion

Question 14

What is a potential disadvantage of social recruiting methods?

A)Increases cost of in-house recruiting
B)Increases candidates' control of their privacy
C)Increases risk of discrimination
D)Increases risk of hiring the wrong person for the job

Question 15

A conclusion based on the 2013 Pew study about online privacy concerns was that ________.

A)30% of Internet users were worried about the information available about them online
B)50% of Internet users were not worried about their online privacy
C)The percentage of Internet users worried about their online privacy had decreased over 4 years.
D)Most Facebook users trusted the site's privacy policies

Question 16

If a workplace violence incident occurred and the attacker's public social networking profile contained information that could have predicted that behavior,the employer may be held liable for ________.

A)Obstruction
B)Civil rights violations
C)Negligent hiring
D)Discrimination

Question 17

Which statement about privacy in the U.S.is incorrect?

A)A person's privacy is well-protected by laws and regulations,and is based to a minor extent on choices the person has made.
B)Privacy is the right to self-determine what information about you is made accessible,to whom,when,and for what use or purpose.
C)Privacy means we have freedom of choice and control over our personal information,including what we do not want shared with or used by others.
D)Unauthorized disclosure of personal information is normally considered a breach of privacy,although what is unauthorized and what is personal information are matters of dispute,particularly when it is online

Question 18

The ________ scrutinizes business practices to regulate "unfair and deceptive trade practices."

A)EEOC
B)FFIEC
C)FTC
D)FCC

Question 19

The term ________ refers to the phenomenon where social users are concerned about privacy,but their behaviors contradict these concerns to an extreme degree.

A)Facebook fallacy
B)Social denial
C)Privacy paradox
D)Media comfort

Question 20

________ is a claim made by an injured party against an employer who knew or should have known about an employee's background that indicates a dangerous or untrustworthy character.

A)Civil rights
B)Protected class
C)Genome
D)Negligent hiring

Question 21

Despite the challenges and lack of clear answers,ethics is important because it has become clear that relying on __________ alone to safeguard the community is insufficient.

A)Corporate policy
B)The law
C)Audit trails
D)Moral behavior

Question 22

Architecting resilience depends on _________,which means that a failure in one component cannot bring down the entire edifice.

A)Isolation
B)Integration
C)Redundancy
D)Flexibility

Question 23

According to Accenture's Technology Vision 2014,becoming a(n)_______ is crucial to how enterprises innovate and differentiate from competitors.

A)truly digital business
B)multimedia organization
C)mobile commerce leader
D)electronic-centric firm

Question 24

The convergence of several technologies is blurring the digital and physical worlds.These converging technologies include each of the following except ________.

A)greater bandwidth
B)explosion of connected M2M devices and IoT
C)expanding software-defined networking
D)increased use of real-time analytics

Question 25

________ refers to situations when too much data interferes with our ability to focus and be productive.

A)Electronic static
B)Social stimuli
C)Cognitive overload
D)Antidistraction

Question 26

The FCC determined that Google's Street View actions and snooping on unencrypted wireless data were:

A)An unfair advantage
B)Environmentally harmful
C)Spying and intolerable invasions of privacy
D)Not technically illegal

Question 27

Because of legacy systems and data silos that limit the value that organizations get out of their data,enterprise data are often underutilized.Accenture recommends that companies start treating data like a(n)________.

A)Account receivable
B)digital credit
C)Supply chain
D)ecosystem

Question 28

_________ can give every business access to an agile workforce that is not only better suited to solving some of the problems that organizations struggle with today but in many cases will do it for free.

A)Crowdsourcing
B)LinkedIn
C)Social recruiting
D)Brainstorming

Question 29

In Google's view and business model,the whole purpose of Glass is to wear it responsibly.

Question 30

We do not live in a world without consequences and boundaries.Yet many people act as though they do,as the privacy paradox points out.

Question 31

The legal system is reactive and slower moving that IT-and may not be prepared for upcoming challenges.

Question 32

3D printers can use ________ electricity to produce a part than would have been used to produce the same part by nonadditive manufacturing.

A)Half the
B)Double the
C)10 times more
D)100 times more

Question 33

Architecting resilience depends on _________,which means that every component is backed up by an alternative in case it fails.

A)Isolation
B)Integration
C)Redundancy
D)Flexibility

Question 34

Private content that uninhibited teenagers with bad judgment posted or sent cannot be made to disappear when they apply for jobs requiring security clearance or intense background checks or run for public office.

Question 35

A person's privacy is based to a large extent on what choices that person has made.

Question 36

__________ or sniffing out and mapping the physical location of Wi-Fi routers is a hacking technique,an invasion of privacy,and an information security risk.

A)IP monitoring
B)Spear fishing
C)Wardriving
D)Snooping

Question 37

Privacy means we have freedom of choice and control over our personal information,including what we do not want shared with or used by others

Question 38

Every industry is being impacted by ________ computing systems-the supersized,scalable,and resilient data centers pioneered by data-dependent and social media companies.

A)cloud
B)hyperscale
C)mobile networked
D)Hadoop

Question 39

With enormous demands for processing power,________ matters more than ever in transforming enterprises into digital businesses.

A)hardware
B)mobile apps
C)social networks
D)software

Question 40

Unauthorized disclosure of personal information is normally considered a breach of privacy,because the law clearly defines what is unauthorized and what is personal information.

Question 41

Canadian Tire enabled its credit card business to create psychological profiles of its cardholders that were built using alarmingly precise correlations.

Question 42

Both free and paid third-party mobile apps are regulated by the FTC to protect privacy.

Question 43

In addition to crowdfunding,companies are using LinkedIn to provide market insight and assess product viability for a lot less than what traditional means cost.

Question 44

Discrimination is biased or prejudicial treatment in recruitment,hiring,or employment based on protected classes characteristics.

Question 45

Companies expose themselves to harsh sanctions by federal agencies when they violate the privacy policies that their customers rely upon.

Question 46

Intelligent interfaces are emerging that allow decisions to be made on the edge-where digital and physical worlds meet,which could be on your wrist,in your hand,or in your field of vision.

Question 47

Bioprinting produces 3D biological objects or parts that are highly precise in shape and mechanical complexity.

Question 48

Several researchers estimate that distraction costs hundreds of billions of dollars a year in lost productivity.

Question 49

There are several frameworks provided by the FTC for deciding what is ethical and what is not.

Question 50

When a Google Street View car encountered an open Wi-Fi network-a non-password-protected router-it recorded all the digital traffic traveling across that router,which the FCC determined was illegal.

Question 51

According to Accenture's Technology Vision 2014,becoming a truly mobile business is crucial to how enterprises innovate and differentiate from competitors

Question 52

The Facebook paradox refers to this phenomenon where social users are concerned about privacy but their behaviors contradict these concerns to an extreme degree.

Question 53

Negligent hiring is a claim made by an injured party against an employer who knew or should have known about an employee's background that indicates a dangerous or untrustworthy character.

Question 54

Predicting people's behavior is big business-and increasingly illegal because of privacy and antimony laundering laws.

Question 55

3D printers can significantly reduce impacts on the environment than those of standard manufacturing methods.

Question 56

Recruiters learn a great deal of information that they are allowed to use in their decision to interview,recommend,or hire someone from what job candidates post about themselves and through their check-ins and posts,.

Question 57

Discrimination is prejudicial treatment that tends to be easy to prove.

Question 58

Controlling the physical world with sensors and digital devices depends on bandwidth and the ability to analyze data in real time.

Question 59

Many people live and work in a state of continuous partial attention as they move through their day-loosely connected to friends and family through various apps on mobile and wearable devices.

Question 60

There are competing business interests and trade-offs at work when the issue is privacy.

Question 61

Crowdsourcing can give every business access to an agile workforce that is not only better suited to solving some of the problems that organizations struggle with today but in many cases will do it for free.

Question 62

Discuss two technologies that are converging and,as a result,are blurring the digital and physical worlds.

Question 63

The __________ refers to this phenomenon where social users are concerned about privacy but their behaviors contradict these concerns to an extreme degree.

Question 64

With enormous demands for processing power,hardware matters more than ever in transforming enterprises into digital businesses.

Question 65

Netflix built resiliency into its IT architecture by following two design principles: isolation and redundancy.

Question 66

An estimated 50% of companies integrate their data across the enterprise.

Question 67

Because of legacy systems and data silos that limit the value that organizations get out of their data,enterprise data are often underutilized.Accenture recommends that companies start treating data like a __________.

Question 68

__________ is a term used in these laws to describe characteristics that cannot be targeted for discrimination and harassment.

Question 69

Despite benefits,the medical application of 3D printing to produce living tissue and organs,or 3D __________,is expected to spark major ethical debates

Question 70

High-performance companies are increasingly recognizing that hyperscale systems are a vital part of becoming a digital business.

Question 71

How many more things do you check today compared to a year ago? How long can you go without checking your devices without experiencing anxiety? When do you put down your mobiles and concentrate on one thing at a time? Do your answers indicate that you are experiencing digital or connectivity overload?

Question 72

Explain the principle of privacy.Describe the privacy paradox.Do you agree that a person's privacy is based to a large extent on what choices that person has made? Explain why or why not.

Question 73

__________ is the right to self-determine what information about you is made accessible,to whom,when,and for what use or purpose.

Question 74

__________ can give every business access to an agile workforce that is not only better suited to solving some of the problems that organizations struggle with today but in many cases will do it for free.

Question 75

________ means that every component in the IT architecture is backed up by an alternative in case it fails.

Question 76

Google's engineers realized the cars could be used for ________ which is also a hacking technique,an invasion of privacy,and an information security risk.

Question 77

Discuss the competing interests and tradeoffs at work when the issue is privacy.In your opinion,why are ethics important when there are numerous civil rights and privacy laws?

Question 78

________ means that a failure in one component of a system or IT architecture cannot bring down the entire enterprise.

Question 79

__________ is a claim made by an injured party against an employer who knew or should have known about an employee's background that indicates a dangerous or untrustworthy character.

Question 80

Every industry is being impacted by __________computing systems-the supersized,scalable,and resilient data centers pioneered by data-dependent and social media companies