Chapter 3 - Digital Society & Workplace Ethics

A type of defamation, speaking a false statement about someone that causes others to have a bad opinion of him or her is called _____.

• flaming

• spamming

• libel

• slander

The _____ stipulations of copyright laws allow individuals to use copyrighted works without permission in limited situations, under strict guidelines.

• fair-use

• patent

• copy left

• creative license

The unethical and illegal copying or distributing of software, files, or other protected intellectual property is called ____.

• hacking

• phishing

• piracy

• scamming

Using the internet to harass or threaten an individual is called _____.

• fair-use

• cyberbullying

• hacking

• digital citizenship

A _____ acknowledges ownership of a work of authorship and specifies that only the owner has the right to sell it, use it, or give permission for someone else to sell or use it.

• fair-use

• digital citizenship

• copyright

• trademark

Principles of right and wrong that help people make decisions are called _____.

• ethics

• rights

• dynamics

• poems

The use of fraudulent emails and fake copies of real websites to trick people into providing private and confidential data would be called _____.

• cyberbullying

• phishing

• hacking

• web searching

A work of authroship such as Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, that does not have a copyright and is free to use by everyone is said to be _____.

• proprietary information

• libel

• fair-use

• public domain

______ is any work created by company employees on the job that is owned by that company. It is sometimes called trade secrets.

• proprietary information

• professional standards

• malware

• trademark

True or false? What other people post about you on your social media becomes a part of your digital footprint.

• True

• False