Ethics - ANSWER A code of behavior that is defined by the group to which an individual belongs.
Morals - ANSWER The personal principles upon which an individual bases his or her decisions about what is right and what
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Ethics - ANSWER A code of behavior that is defined by the group to which an individual belongs.
Morals - ANSWER The personal principles upon which an individual bases his or her decisions about what is right and what is wrong.
Virtue - ANSWER A habit that inclines people to do what is acceptable
Vice - ANSWER A habit of unacceptable behavior
Software Piracy - ANSWER A form of copyright infringement that involves making copies of software or enabling others to access software to which they are not entitled
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) - ANSWER The concept that an organization should act ethically by taking responsibility for the impact of its actions on its shareholders, consumers, employees, community, environment, and suppliers
Supply chain sustainability - ANSWER A component of CSR that focuses on developing and maintaining a supply chain that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Bathsheba syndrome - ANSWER The moral corruption of people in power, which is often facilitated by a tendency for people to look the other way when their leaders act inappropriately.
Law - ANSWER A system of rules that tells us what we can and cannot do
Code of Ethics - ANSWER A statement that highlights an organization's key ethical issues and identifies the overarching values and principles that are important to the organization and its decision-making.
Corporate compliance officer - ANSWER The corporate ethics officer. A senior-level manager who provides an organization with vision and leadership in the area of business conduct.
Social Audit - ANSWER A process whereby an organization reviews how well it is meeting its ethical and social responsibility goals and communicates its new goals for the upcoming year.
Stakeholder - ANSWER Someone who stands to gain or lose, depending on how a particular situation is resolved.
Ethical Decision-Making Process - ANSWER 1. Develop Problem Statement
2. Identify Alternatives
3. Choose Alternative
4. Implement the Decision
5. Evaluate the Results
Right of privacy - ANSWER "The right to be left alone—the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by a free people."
Information privacy - ANSWER The combination of communications privacy (the ability to communicate with others without those communications being monitored by other persons or organizations) and data privacy (the ability to limit access to one's personal data by other individuals and organizations in order to exercise a substantial degree of control over that data and their use).
Fair Credit Reporting Act - ANSWER Regulates the operations of credit reporting bureaus, including how they collect, store, and use credit information.
Right to Financial Privacy Act - ANSWER Protects the records of financial institution customers from unauthorized scrutiny by the federal government.
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) (Public Law 106-102) - ANSWER Also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, was a bank deregulation law that repealed a Depression-era law known as Glass-Steagall. Contains the Financial Privacy Rule (consumer right to opt out/in), Safeguards Rule and Pretexting Rule.
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act - ANSWER An amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. It allows consumers to request and obtain a free credit report once each year from each of the three primary consumer credit reporting companies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion)
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - ANSWER Designed to improve the portability and continuity of health insurance coverage; to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in health insurance and healthcare delivery; and to simplify the administration of health insurance.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) - ANSWER A federal law that assigns certain rights to parents regarding their children's educational records.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) - ANSWER Requires any website that caters to children must offer comprehensive privacy policies, notify parents or guardians about its data collection practices, and receive parental consent before collecting any personal information from children under 13 years of age.
Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act - ANSWER Also known as the Wiretap Act, regulates the interception of wire (telephone) and oral communications
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) - ANSWER Describes procedures for the electronic surveillance and collection of foreign intelligence information in communications between foreign powers and the agents of foreign powers.
Executive Order 12333 - ANSWER Identifies various U.S. governmental intelligence-gathering agencies and defines what information can be collected, retained, and disseminated by these agencies.
Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) - ANSWER Deals with three main issues: the protection of communications while in transfer from sender to receiver; the protection of communications held in electronic storage; and the prohibition of devices from recording dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling information without a search warrant.
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) - ANSWER Required the telecommunications industry to build tools into its products that federal investigators could use—after obtaining a court order—to eavesdrop on conversations and intercept electronic communications.
USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) - ANSWER Gave sweeping new powers to both domestic law enforcement and U.S. international intelligence agencies, including increasing the ability of law enforcement agencies to search telephone, email, medical, financial, and other records. It also eased restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering in the United States.
USA Freedom Act - ANSWER Terminated the bulk collection of telephone metadata by the NSA. Instead, telecommunications providers are now required to hold the data and respond to NSA queries on the data.
Cookies - ANSWER Text files that can be downloaded to the hard drives of users who visit a website, so that the website is able to identify visitors on subsequent visits
Data breach - ANSWER The unintended release of sensitive data or the access of sensitive data by unauthorized individuals
Identity theft - ANSWER The theft of personal information, which is then used without the owner's permission.
Electronic discovery (e-discovery) - ANSWER The collection, preparation, review, and production of electronically stored information for use in criminal and civil actions and proceedings.
Electronically stored information (ESI) - ANSWER Includes any form of digital information, including emails, drawings, graphs, web pages, photographs, word-
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