International, National, and Industry-Specific Regulations
Completion requirements
Modern information systems can raise various legal and ethical issues in addition to those associated with intellectual property. After reading the selection, what are some of the most significant ethical challenges that professionals using and developing BI systems should consider? How do these ethical issues translate into specific laws and regulations? Is the legal structure keeping up with the development of new technology?
Exercises
- Provide one example of how information technology has created an ethical dilemma that would not have existed before the advent of I.T.
- Find an example of a code of ethics or acceptable use policy related to information technology and highlight five points that you think are important.
- Do some original research on the effort to combat patent trolls. Write a two-page paper that discusses this legislation.
- Give an example of how NORA could be used to identify an individual.
- How are intellectual property protections different across the world? Pick two countries and do some original research, then compare the patent and copyright protections offered in those countries to those in the US. Write a two- to three-page paper describing the differences.
- Knowing that GDPR had a deadline of May 25, 2018, provide an update on the status of compliance by firms in non- European countries.