Package Title: Homework Questions
Course Title: IS 5e
Chapter Number: 3
Question Type: True/False
1) One of the most dangerous (in terms of their unethical violation of privacy) aspects of Web sites such as
WikiLeaks is that their activities cannot be regulated or criminalized because they do not fall under the
jurisdiction of any one nation.
2) Major scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco led to the passage of which law in 2002?
a) The Securities and Exchange Commission Act
b) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
c) The Banking Regulation and Overhaul Act
d) The Federal Trade Commission Act
3) Tagging your friends’ pictures on Facebook will not compromise their privacy as long as you obtain their
permission.
4) The legal concept that gives individuals the right to recover damages done to them by other individuals,
organizations, or systems is known as:
a) Liability.
b) Responsibility.
c) Legal integrity.
d) Accountability.
5) Using apps on your smart phones that broadcast your location to others is a harmless act.
6) If your employer clearly states in the employee handbook that work email addresses should be used for
official business only and then proceeds to read all the emails you send and receive, he or she is guilty of a legal
violation.
7) Two major conflicting issues related to privacy are ___ and ___.
a) Freedom of speech, human rights
b) Human rights, equal opportunity employment
c) Freedom of speech, national security
d) None of these
8)Terry Childs was accused of all of the following except:
a) Creating passwords that granted him exclusive access to the system.
b)Collecting pages of user names and passwords so he could use their network login information.
c) Downloading city data to a personal encrypted storage device.
d)Sharing proprietary data with friends and colleagues.