CIS Chapter 9
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- Computer ethics
- guidelines for moral computer use
- Privacy
- concerns collection and use of data about individuals
- Accuracy
- relates to the responsibility of those who owns the data
- Property
- relates to who owns the data
- Access
- relates to the responsibility of those who have data to control who is able to use it
- Reverse directories
-
special telephones directories
that list telephone numbers followed by the subscriberÂ’s names - Freedom of Information Act
- entitles individuals access to governmental records relating to them
- Snoopware
- special software that monitors employees e-mails
- Illustions of anonymity
- people think that they are safe as long as they do not disclose their personal info
- History files
-
record locations of sites visited by a
computer system - Cookies
-
specialized programs deposited on your
computer that record sites visited - Traditional cookies
- monitor activities on a single site
- Ad network cookies
- aka adware cookies, monitor activites across all sites visited
- Spyware
-
programs designed to secretly record
internet activity - Computer abuse amendment act of 1994
- law that punishes the creator of viruses or worms
- Software Copyright Act of 1980
- prevents computer piracy
- Encrypting
- code for messages
- Hot sites
- special emergency facilities
- Cold sites
-
empty shells in which hardware must be
installed - Ergonomics
- study of human factors related to things people use
- Repetitive strain injury, carpal tunnel syndrome
- avoid frequent breaks, good posture
- Chlorofluorocarbons
- reduces this harmful chemical