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Q: Latin America tends to recognize the equality of men and women more than European society.

Q: The World Trade Organization (WTO) developed the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to establish the minimum levels of protection that each government must provide to the intellectual property of all WTO members. a. True b. False

Q: Montana was the first state to _____ .A) adopt employment at willB) guarantee employees' pension benefitsC) prohibit employee drug testingD) comprehensively reject employment at will

Q: How can speech be considered obscene and not protected under the First Amendment?

Q: All foreign countries have gender role consistent with U.S. law.

Q: Copyright law protects authored works such as art, books, and film. a. True b. False

Q: Typically:A) Employers and employees are equal to each other. B) Employees wield power over large employers.C) Employers are in a position of power relative to prospective employees. D) Employers wish to fire their employees.

Q: Why do some people believe that the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN- SPAM) Act has increased the amount of spam?

Q: The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act of 2008 increased trademark and copyright enforcement and substantially increased penalties for infringement. a. True b. False

Q: The doctrine of Employment at Will means _____ .A) only the employer can end the relationshipB) either employer or employee can end the relationshipC) only the employee can end the relationship at any time D) neither employer or employee can end the relationship

Q: Discuss why U.S. organizations must be very careful when dealing with issues relating to pornography in the workplace.

Q: Two software manufacturers could conceivably develop separate programs that perform the same functions in a nearly identical manner without infringing each other's copyrights. a. True b. False

Q: If Wal-Mart pays minimum wage, it is _____ .A) deliberately hurtful to its employeesB) being overly generousC) violating retirement lawsD) taking advantage of labor market conditions

Q: Explain a John Doe lawsuit.

Q: Enron owned natural gas pipelines.

Q: The Fair Use Doctrine is a defense often employed by the defendant in trademark infringement cases. a. True b. False

Q: How has the definition of freedom of speech evolved over time as the courts have ruled on First Amendment cases?

Q: The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp is _____ .A) a federal insurerB) a private insurerC) part of the Social Security AdministrationD) always able to pay 100% of insured pensions

Q: Lawyers may never report the fraud of their clients.

Q: Arthur Anderson always used the highest objective accounting standards with respect to Enron.

Q: __________ can take many forms-such as limiting access to certain Web sites, allowing access to only some content or modified content at certain Web sites, rejecting the use of certain keywords in search engine searches, tracking and monitoring the Internet activities of individuals, and harassing or even jailing individuals for their Internet use.

Q: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act affected officers of publicly traded companies.

Q: Arthur Anderson served as Enron's auditors.

Q: Internet users who do not want to reveal their identity can send email to a(n) __________ service, which uses a computer program to strip the originating IP number or header from the message.

Q: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act affected directors of publicly traded companies.

Q: Enron made a fortune in broadband services.

Q: Access via the__________ enables pornography consumers to avoid offending others or being embarrassed by others observing their purchases.

Q: A negative side of__________ is that they can block too much content, keeping users from accessing useful information.

Q: All aggressive companies must eventually restate earnings.

Q: Because prohibitions against hate speech are included in the__________ between a private ISP and its subscribers, and do no involve the federal government, they do not violate the subscriber's First Amendment rights.

Q: __________ advocates believe that there is nothing illegal or wrong about purchasing adult pornographic material made by and for consenting adults.

Q: John C. Coffee, Jr. blames the rise in laborers' compensation for much of the corporate abuses of the 1990's.

Q: __________ uses terms or phrases–such as sex, Satan, and gambling–to trigger the blocking of Web sites.

Q: The act of sending sexual messages, nude or seminude photos, or sexually explicit videos over a cell phone is known as __________.

Q: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act affects auditors.

Q: By filing a__________, companies gain immediate subpoena power to identify information on anonymous online postings.

Q: John Rawls is a social contract theorist.

Q: The__________ is charged with enforcing the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act, and the agency maintains a consumer complaint database relating to the law.

Q: Moral talk by managers is seen as: A) a threat to the image of effectiveness B) helpful to efficiency C) both of the above D) none of the above

Q: Some Internet users would like to ban Web__________ because they think that its use increases the risks of defamation, fraud, libel, and exploitation of children.

Q: Working on an offshore oil rig can be dangerous.

Q: Business managers tend to be morally _____ .A) weakB) congruent C) incongruent D) mute

Q: A written defamatory statement is called__________.

Q: Angola is a wealthy country.

Q: Ethics in a Bureaucracy most often resembles _____ .A) a moral maze B) a straight line C) a ellipseD) a jig-saw puzzle

Q: Nozick uses the person of Wilt Chamberlain in his example. Wilt Chamberlain was a famous _____ .A) basketball playerB) musicianC) actorD) jockey

Q: Implementing the__________ in libraries is difficult because their services are open to people of all ages, including adults who have First Amendment rights to access a broader range of Internet materials than are allowed under the Act.

Q: In modern American Bureaucratic companies _____ .A) details are pushed up and credit is pushed upB) details are pushed down and credit is pushed upC) details are pushed down and credit is pushed downD) details are pushed up and credit is pushed down

Q: Proponents of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) argued that: a. schools can define what sites to block. b. Internet filters are highly flexible and customizable. c. the motives of private software companies who develop the Internet filters are clear. d. CIPA transfers power to education over private software companies who develop the Internet filters.

Q: Persistent or malicious harassment aimed at a specific person is known as__________.

Q: According to Nozick, if the government wanted an equal distribution of goods to always be the case, it would have to _____ .A) prevent transfer by individualsB) reward the unjustC) distribute items once a yearD) be in favor of utility

Q: A survey by the Nielsen found that__________ of the workforce accessed pornography from their workplace computer. a. less than 15 percent b. 29 percent c. 50 percent d. nearly 75 percent

Q: Nozick posits that justice in holdings does not include which of the following? A) Original acquisition of holdings B) Transfer of holdings C) Secondary or repeated transfer of holdings D) Permanent equality of assets

Q: The__________ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects Americans' rights to freedom of religion and freedom of expression.

Q: __________ has the largest online population in the world and also perhaps the most rigorous Internet censorship. a. United States b. India c. Japan d. China

Q: Rawls believes in _____ .A) utilitarian ethicsB) social contract theoryC) economic ethicsD) natural ethics

Q: The goal of the__________ was to protect children from pornography, and if the act had been judged constitutional, it would have opened all aspects of Internet content to legal scrutiny.

Q: A(n) __________ is software that can be installed with a Web browser to block access to certain Web sites that contain inappropriate or offensive material. a. Internet filter b. router c. bridge d. Web modem

Q: The commercial insecticide Neemix is based on a natural compound.

Q: Rawls argues that utility runs counter to _____ .A) libertyB) economyC) justiceD) philosophy

Q: Opponents of the__________ feared that it transferred power over education to private software companies who developed the Internet filters and defined which sites to block.

Q: The European Union requires that member states _____ .A) fairly process personal dataB) outlaw personal databasesC) allow each individual access to all their personal dataD) permanently store all personal data

Q: In the United States, speech that is merely annoying, critical, demeaning, or offensive enjoys protection under the ­­­__________ Amendment. a. First b. Second c. Fourth d. Fifth

Q: Rawls believes society is characterized by conflict and _____ .A) an identity of interestsB) divergent interestsC) life interestsD) indifferent interests

Q: The Code of Fair Information Practices _____ .A) was never adoptedB) is federal lawC) is law in 36 statesD) is effect only in California

Q: Violation of the__________ can cause a school or public library to lose funding to help pay for its Internet connections. a. Child Online Protection Act (COPA) b. Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) c. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) d. Communications Decency Act (CDA)

Q: Robert Nozick is critical of socialism based on which of the following? A) Public economy view B) Free choice view C) His Marxist views D) It provides people's needs

Q: The Privacy Act of 1974 _____ .A) allows individuals to delete their governmental recordsB) hampered the enforcement of some other lawsC) transferred individual privacy rights to the GovernmentD) restricted governmental data matching

Q: __________ is the control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet. a. Internet filtering b. Anonymous expression c. Internet censorship d. Slander

Q: The right to freedom of expression is restricted when the expressions, whether spoken or written, are untrue and cause harm to another person. a. True b. False

Q: Rawls posits four branches of government; which of the following is not one? A) Communication B) Allocation C) Stabilization D) Distribution

Q: Computers have led to _____ .A) less data being stored permanentlyB) less abuse of private informationC) information gathering on a much greater scaleD) decreased sale of information

Q: Which of the following statements is true of Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)? a. In case of CIPA, Congress specifically defined what content or Web sites should be forbidden and the measures to be used. b. CIPA requires the tracking of Internet use by minors or adults. c. In June 2004, the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Ashcroftv.AmericanCivilLibertiesUnionmade it clear that CIPA was unconstitutional. d. CIPA requires federally financed schools to use some form of technological protection to block computer access to obscene material.

Q: Free-speech advocates believe that purchasing adult pornographic material is illegal and wrong even for consenting adults. a. True b. False

Q: If an employee sees a coworker viewing porn on a workplace computer, that employee may be able to claim that the company has__________. a. encouraged defamation of the character of its employees b. engaged in racial discrimination c. violated the employee's First Amendment rights d. created a hostile work environment

Q: Data mining _____ .A) always involves creditB) can lead to potentially illegal activities such as redliningC) does not correlate raw dataD) is used only by mineral resource companies

Q: With URL filtering, a particular URL or domain name is identified as an objectionable site and the user is not allowed access to it. a. True b. False

Q: Employer monitoring of employee computer use _____ .A) potentially can be an invasion of privacyB) is always innocuousC) is exactly the same as listening to employee phone callsD) becomes more difficult each year

Q: U.S. laws do not allow a person to be__________ for engaging in an activity protected by the U.S. Constitution, even if the activity violates the criminal laws of another country. a. imprisoned b. sued c. extradited d. judged

Q: Extended trust requires _____ .A) acknowledged competenceB) consistency of behaviorC) opennessD) all of the above