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1. (p. 293) Many businesses have developed a privacy policy, which explains what use of the
company’s technology is permissible.
2. (p. 293) Most Americans mistakenly believe that if a Web site has a privacy policy that those
sites are not collecting or selling their personal information and online activities to others.
3. (p. 293) Due to efforts by companies to help consumers feel more secure about their personal
information, consumer mistrust has diminished.
4. (p. 293) Recent technological advances have decreased the number of way that privacy
violations may occur.
5. (p. 294) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) was featured in a TV commercial where “the
packages knew the truck was lost” before the driver did.
6. (p. 294) Many experts have raised ethical questions about the ways RFID technology enables
businesses, governments, and criminals to gather information about presale, sales, and post-
sale activities.
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7. (p. 294) Advocacy groups such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center criticized the
P3P concept as too difficult for users to understand or use properly.
8. (p. 295) Children are the least vulnerable to invasions of privacy.
9. (p. 295) GetNetWise and the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 protect children in the
United States against adult-oriented Web sites.
10. (p. 297) Honeypots are systems used by security professionals to prevent hackers from
entering a computer network.
11. (p. 298) The responsibility of managing technology with its many privacy and security issues
for business organizations is entrusted to the CEO.
12. (p. 301) Software piracy is a spreading and global problem.
13. (p. 304) Streaming is illegal and in violation of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of
1998.
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14. (p. 305) The human genome is the application of engineering to create materials on a
molecular or atomic scale.
15. (p. 310) Most genetically modified corn grown in the United States is made into animal feed
or ethanol.
16. (p. 293) In response to employees’ challenges that business practices were invasions of their
privacy, many businesses:
Difficulty: Easy
17. (p. 293) By the end of 2008, the number of attacks on information security reached:
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18. (p. 294) In a 2008 survey from Columbia University, what percentage of American adults
said they were uncomfortable when Web sites used personal information to tailor
advertisements?
Difficulty: Medium
19. (p. 294) In 2002, this allowed Web sites to tell the user’s Web browser about the site’s data
privacy policies:
Difficulty: Hard
20. (p. 295) The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 requires:
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21. (p. 295) In a 2007 survey of more than 800 North American privacy and security
professionals, what percentage acknowledged having at least one reportable data breach of
personally identifiable information with their organizations during the past 12 months?
Difficulty: Easy
22. (p. 296) A hijacked computer that can be remote-controlled by the attacker to respond to the
attacker’s commands is called a:
Difficulty: Hard
23. (p. 296) Spraying random packets of data in huge streams over the Internet are:
Difficulty: Medium
24. (p. 296) The corporate nemesis responsible for creating and spreading computer attacks is
called a:
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25. (p. 297) In 2005, this school announced that it would admit some of the 17 business
applicants who had hacked into its computerized database:
Difficulty: Medium
26. (p. 297) The Federal Trade Commission advocates which of the following for business
security?
Difficulty: Easy
27. (p. 297) Honeypots are:
Difficulty: Hard
28. (p. 298) A CIO is the company’s:
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29. (p. 298) Primarily, the CIO is expected to:
Difficulty: Hard
30. (p. 298) At Cisco Systems, the CIO:
Difficulty: Medium
31. (p. 300) GetNetWise, launched by several major Internet companies, provided:
Difficulty: Hard
32. (p. 300) Which of the following is not commercial software to block pornography on the
Internet?
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33. (p. 300) The Child Online Protection Act, passed in 1998,
Difficulty: Medium
34. (p. 301) Intellectual property refers to:
35. (p. 301) Loss of annual sales due to software piracy by software companies was estimated to
be:
Difficulty: Hard
36. (p. 301) Two of the largest strongholds for software piracy are:
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37. (p. 301) The practice of downloading copyrighted songs was challenged because it:
38. (p. 301) One of the most common protocols for sharing large files and enabling movies to be
downloaded safely is:
Difficulty: Medium
39. (p. 302) This Act makes it a crime to circumvent antipiracy measures built into most
commercial software agreements between the manufactures and their users:
40. (p. 304) According to Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems’ chief scientist, the 21st century
technologies:
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41. (p. 305) The identification of human genes is critical to:
Difficulty: Easy
42. (p. 308) In 2005, the United Nations approved a declaration that:
Difficulty: Medium
43. (p. 309) Project BioShield was:
Difficulty: Hard
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45. (p. 309) The safety of genetically modified foods:
Difficulty: Medium
46. (p. 293 – 295) Discuss the steps businesses and governments have taken to better protect
stakeholder privacy.
47. (p. 295 – 296) It is critical for businesses to maintain information in a secure location and guard
this valuable resource. How secure is information in a free-access information society. Are
digital certificates or other detection systems sufficient to protect information from hackers?
48. (p. 296 – 298) What have businesses done to address the number, severity, and ease of hacker
attacks on firms?
49. (p. 298 – 299) How is the corporate Chief Information Officer a “coach” for the organization?
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50. (p. 299 – 301) Who should be entrusted with guarding against minors accessing adult-oriented
Web sites?
51. (p. 301 – 304) Is information on the Internet truly free, or should copyrighted music or software
be protected?
52. (p. 309 – 311) Who is to say that genetically modified foods are safe for human consumption?