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37 Cards in this Set
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The mechanisms for assessing responsibility for decisions made and actions taken.
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Accountability
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Type of RSI in which pressure on the median nerve through the wrist's bony carpal tunnel structure produces pain.
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)
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The commission of acts involving a computer that may not be illegal but are considered unethical.
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Computer Abuse
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The commission of illegal acts through the use of a computer or against a computer system.
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Computer Crime
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Eyestrain condition related to computer display screen use; symptoms include headaches, blurred vision, and dry and irritated eyes.
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Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)
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Tiny file deposited on a computer hard drive when an individual visits certain Web sites. Used to identify the visitor and track visits to the Web site.
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Cookies
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A statutory grant that protects creators of intellectual property against copying by others for any purpose for a minimum of 70 years.
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Copyright
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A principle that states that if an action cannot be taken repeatedly, then it is not right to be taken at any time.
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Descartes' Rule of Change
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Large disparities in access to computers and the Internet among different social groups and different locations.
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Digital Divide
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Adjusts copyright laws to the Internet Age by making it illegal to make, distribute, or use devices that circumvent technology-based protections of copy-righted materials.
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
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A process in which laws are well-known and understood and there is an ability to appeal to higher authorities to ensure that laws are applied correctly.
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Due Process
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Assumption that all tangible and intangible objects are owned by someone else, unless there is a specific declaration otherwise, and that the creator wants compensation for this work.
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Ethical "no free lunch" Rule
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Principles of right and wrong that can be used by individuals acting as free moral agents to make choices to guide their behavior.
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Ethics
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A set of principles originally set forth in 1973 that governs the collection and use of information about individuals and forms the basis of most U.S. and European privacy laws.
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Fair Information Practices (FIP)
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Displaying the content of another Web site inside one's own Web site within a frame or a window.
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Framing
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A principle that states that if an action is not right for everyone to take it is not right for anyone.
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Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative
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The rights that individuals and organizations have with respect to information that pertains to themselves.
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Information Rights
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Consent given with knowledge of all the facts needed to make a rational decision.
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Informed Consent
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Intangible property created by individuals or corporations that is subject to protections under trade secret, copyright, and patent law.
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Intellectual Property
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The existence of laws that permit individuals to recover the damages done to them by other actors, systems, or organizations.
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Liability
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Technology that can find obscure hidden connections between people or other entities by analyzing information from many different sources to correlate relationships.
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Nonobvious Relationship Awareness (NORA)
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Model of informed consent permitting prohibiting an organization from collecting any personal information unless the individual specifically takes action to approve information collection and use.
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Opt-In
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Model of informed consent permitting the collection of personal information until the consumer specifically requests that the data not be collected.
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Opt-Out
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Industry standard designed to give users more control over personal information gathered on Web sites they visit. Stands for Platform for Privacy Preferences Project.
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P3P
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A legal document that grants the owner an exclusive monopoly on the ideas behind an invention for 17 years; designed to ensure that inventors of new machines or methods are rewarded for their labor while making widespread use of their inventions.
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Patent
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The claim of individuals to be left alone, free from surveillance or interference from other individuals, organizations, or the state.
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Privacy
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The use of computers to combine data from multiple sources and create electronic dossiers of detailed information on individuals.
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Profiling
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Occupational disease that occurs when muscle groups are forced through repetitive actions with high-impact loads or thousands of repetitions with low-impact loads.
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Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI)
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Accepting the potential costs, duties, and obligations for the decisions one makes.
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Responsibility
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Principle that one should take the action that produces the least harm or incurs the least cost.
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Risk Aversion Principle
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Private self-regulating policy and enforcement mechanism that meets the objectives of government regulations but does not involve government regulation or enforcement.
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Safe Harbor
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Unsolicited commercial e-mail.
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Spam
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Technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge.
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Spyware
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Stress induced by computer use; symptoms include aggravation, hostility toward humans, impatience, and enervation.
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Technostress
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Any intellectual work or product used for a business purpose that can be classified as belonging to that business, provided it is not based on information in the public domain.
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Trade Secret
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Principle that assumes one can put values in rank order and understand the consequences of various courses of action.
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Utilitarian Principle
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Tiny graphic files embedded in e-mail messages and Web pages that are designed to monitor online Internet user behavior.
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Web Bugs
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