Chapter 4 Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues in Information Systems

13) Nonobvious relationship awareness (NORA) is technology that can find obscure hidden connections between people or other entities by analyzing information from many different sources to correlate relationships.

14) Ethics are principles of right and wrong that can be used by individuals acting as free moral agents to make choices to guide their behaviour.

15) Responsibility is a very minor element of ethical action.

16) Privacy is the right to be left alone when you want to be, without surveillance or interference from other individuals or organizations.

17) Liability extends the concept of responsibility further to the area of laws.

18) Golden Rule Ethical principle states "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

19) Descartes' rule of change categorical imperative is a principle that states that if an action is not right for everyone to take, it is not right for anyone.

20) Risk aversion principle states that one should take the action that produces the least harm or incurs the least cost.

21) Many companies monitor what their employees are doing on the Internet to prevent them from wasting company resources on nonbusiness activities.

22) The claim to privacy is protected in the Canadian, U.S., and German constitutions in a in exactly the same way and in other countries through various statutes.

23) Right now Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta are the only provinces with privacy laws for the private sector that meet European Union standards.

24) In 2000, Parliament passed the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada's modern privacy law.