The Ninth Annual Global Software Piracy Study reported that the rate of global software piracy climbed to what percentage in 2011?
Explanation
This question uses a specific statistic from the chapter to quantify the scale of the software piracy problem, a major challenge to intellectual property rights.
Other questions
According to the case study on ethical issues for the aged community, what is a primary recurring ethical issue associated with 'Smart House' technology?
What are the five moral dimensions of the information age identified in the chapter?
Which technology trend involves combining data from multiple sources to create detailed electronic dossiers of individuals?
What is the primary purpose of Nonobvious Relationship Awareness (NORA) technology?
Which ethical principle suggests that if an action is not right for everyone to take, it is not right for anyone?
What is the ethical 'no free lunch' rule, as described in the chapter?
What is the most important U.S. federal law regulating the federal government's collection, use, and disclosure of information?
The European Directive on Data Protection requires companies to obtain what before they can legally use data about an individual?
What is the primary method by which websites like Amazon.com track a visitor's activity and customize content for them upon return?
What U.S. law makes it illegal to circumvent technology-based protections of copyrighted materials?
Which of the following is NOT considered a principal source of poor system performance?
The term for stress induced by computer use, with symptoms like aggravation, hostility, and impatience, is known as:
In the Interactive Session about the iPhone becoming an iTrack, what was the primary commercial value of the location data gathered from cell phones?
What is the core principle of the Fair Information Practices (FIP) regime?
What is the legal protection for an intellectual work product, such as a formula or business process, that is not based on information in the public domain?
What did GlaxoSmithKline pay in fines in 2012 for unlawful promotion of drugs and other civil and criminal liabilities?
What is the first step in the five-step process for ethical analysis presented in the chapter?
Which of the following best describes the opt-out model of informed consent?
What is the primary drawback of copyright protection for software?
A study by Symantec in 2012 found that what percentage of malware was being targeted at small businesses?
The case study on monitoring in the workplace discusses a legal case (Copeland v the United Kingdom) where the European Court ruled in the employee's favor. On what grounds was the employee's privacy deemed violated?
Which of the following is NOT one of the FTC's Fair Information Practice principles?
According to the chapter, what is the 'digital divide'?
The case study 'Facebook: It’s About the Money' states that in 2011, advertising revenue constituted what percentage of Facebook's total revenue?
The concept of liability, a key element of ethical action, is defined as a feature of which type of system?
What is the main purpose of professional codes of conduct, such as those from the ACM or AMA?
The European Directive on Data Protection, which went into effect on October 25, 1998, is stricter than U.S. law primarily because:
In the case of the BlackBerry outage in October 2011, what was the primary cause of the cascading failure?
According to the chapter, what is the single largest source of Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI)?
Approximately what percentage of people who spend three or more hours per day at a computer are affected by Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)?
What is the primary difference between a trade secret and a patent?
The 2011 report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) found the average financial loss for complainants was more than:
According to the chapter, which two technology trends are most directly responsible for making the routine violation of individual privacy cheap and effective?
What does 'accountability' mean as a basic concept in ethics?
The proposed 'Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2011' would require firms to:
How does patent law differ from copyright law in what it protects?
What is the primary reason it is so difficult to hold software producers liable for damages from their software?
The term 'spam' is described as junk e-mail sent to a mass audience of Internet users. Approximately what percentage of all e-mail was estimated to be spam in 2012?
What is the primary argument made by economists like Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew P. McAfee regarding the impact of new technology on employment?
In the Facebook case study, what is 'weblining'?
According to a Consumer Reports study cited in the Facebook case study, how many of the 150 million Americans on Facebook have never adjusted their privacy controls?
What does the concept of 'due process' ensure in a law-governed society?
Descartes' rule of change is also known as the:
What is the primary function of Web beacons?
In what year did the European Parliament pass new rules governing the use of third-party cookies for behavioral tracking?
What is the primary difference between a computer virus and a computer worm?
The practice of tricking employees into revealing their passwords by pretending to be legitimate members of a company is known as:
In the case study about the aged community, what social and cultural consideration might make sensor-based monitoring systems unacceptable?
What type of intellectual property protection grants an exclusive monopoly on the ideas behind an invention for 20 years?