...Information Technology Acts Sherwoska Smith BIS/220 July 3, 2013 Information Technology Acts Although some people still take pleasure in writing checks, checks are a thing of former times. Some people also still carry out most of their banking necessities inside a local branch however majority of their needs can be handle online from the convince of their home. The advancements in information technology have been the basis for the creation of the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, 1978 and the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act, 1997. According to "Consumer Affairs Laws And Regulations" (2010), " The Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) (15 USC 1693 et seq.) of 1978 is intended to protect individual consumers engaging in electronic fund transfers (EFTs). EFT services include transfers through automated teller machines, point-of-sale terminals, automated clearinghouse systems, telephone bill-payment plans in which periodic or recurring transfers are contemplated, and remote banking programs.” (Electronic Funds Transfer Act). According to "University Information Technology Services" (2005-2013), Congress enacted the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act in 1997 to facilitate prosecution of copyright violation on the Internet. The NET Act makes it a federal crime to reproduce, distribute, or share copies of electronic copyrighted works such as songs, movies, games, or software programs, even if the person copying or distributing the material acts without commercial purpose and/or...
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...Information Technology Act BIS/220 April 23, 2012 Information Technology Act In the world we live in today, there’s some type of electronic device being used to connect to the Internet. “The world-wide platform enable individuals to connect, compute, communicate, compete, and collaborate everywhere, and anywhere, anytime and all the time, and to access limitless amounts of information, services, and entertainment”(Kelly Rainer Jr. & Cegielski, 2011). “This platform operates without regard to geography, time, distance, or even language barriers” (Kelly Rainer Jr. & Cegielski, 2011).We use these devices in our homes, in our businesses, in our schools, on our cell phones, and in the public libraries. Now that our children in most cases have unlimited access to the Internet, there is a great possibility that children are exposed to inappropriate material and on predators. In this paper there will be discussion on what were the advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of Children Internet Protection Act, 2000 and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, 1998. Children Internet Protection Act, 2000 In December 2000, President Clinton signed into law The Children’s Internet Protection Act. Through the use of technology protection on measures, schools and public libraries are required to protect minors from the dangers of the Internet (Menuey, B. P. 2009). “The major concern with the implementation...
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...Information technology as we know of today has came a very long way this past couple of decades. Internet has placed our world at our fingertip. If a person need to find information regarding a subject, if they need to learn about different country and their culture they can go online and research the information without leaving the comfort of their home. With all these advancement internet also has its downside. Anyone with the access to internet can post any information online, not only can they post wrong information, they can also post things that are not suitable for certain audience. Also, through internet commercial companies can collect personal and valuable information from children. With all the new ethical issues that resulted from the advancement of the information technology their had to be certain rules implemented to keep the children safe. Children have access to internet at home, school and library. Internet has become a major tool for todays education. Children are encouraged to use internet to do research and find information for their projects. While they have free access to online information it is also important to monitor the use of internet by young children. When children access the internet it can put them in contact with information that are not suitable for them. While some children might come across inappropriate material inadvertently their are also children who might seek out inappropriate material voluntarily. There are sites that promote...
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...Information Technology Acts Mayra Gonzalez BIS/220 October 28, 2013 Jadie Giorgis Information Technology Acts While information technology continual to move ahead over the years, ethical concerns turn into an issue. Accordingly, the government executed specific acts to govern these concerns. Even as some of these acts exists, this text centered on two sections specifically: US Patriot Act of 2001, and Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970. Whereas the Patriot Act was executed to lessen terrorist activities by the use of the internet, the Fair Credit Act was executed to give every American with be on a par with credit opportunities. The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, also well-known as the Patriot Act of 2001 was enacted in 2001. The Patriot Act was established to “deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and other purposes” (US). Table 1.1 below provides a synopsis of the sections of the Patriot Act involving financial institutions and their operations. Table 1.1 Sections of the Patriot Act of 2001 Section Purpose | 311 “Special Measures for Jurisdictions, Financial Institutions, or International Transactions of Primary Money Laundering Concern | 312 Special Due Diligence for Correspondent Accounts and Private Banking Accounts | 313 Prohibition on U.S. Correspondent Accounts with Foreign Shell...
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...In discussing the advances in information technology, that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating in the creation preventive measures, we will look into; The Children’s Online Privacy Act, 2000 as well as the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act, 1997. Both of these acts were created due to unethical actions by a group of people or a person. The Children’s Online Privacy Act or CIPA, was created in 2000 because there was a concern about the material children were being exposed to online. The advancement in information technology made it even easier for children to have access to anything online. In order to combat this, CIPA would offer incentives to participate in a program that would aid in the protection of children by providing discounts to those who agree to participate. In order to participate in this program, a school or library would have to agree to have a town hall meeting to address the proposal of implementing the Internet monitoring and safety program. Once the public is informed, then they must agree to monitor the activities while children are online as well as, but also educate the children on what behavior is inappropriate. Once the school or library agrees to use and implement the safety policies by created CIPA, certain guidelines must be laid out and followed. CIPA will then address potential issues and how they are to be dealt with. They must have procedures to not only monitor inappropriate behavior by minors but also to inform them of what behavior...
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...Information Technology Acts BIS/220 BSAH16ZDG6 Facilitator: Dr. Charles A. von Urff Week 1 Individual Assessment Due March 11, 2013 Submitted March 11, 2013 Executive Summary In today’s age and society, information technology is a growing necessity in the functioning of retrieving information from the internet. Thus access to the internet is available to everyone no matter the age. In order to protect all ages of internet users, the United States Congress has passed several Acts to protect users. With the advances in information technology the ethical issues of privacy and appropriate content in regards to children have lead to the United States Congress passing the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 (CIPA) and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). Each Act has its own ethical issues as to it’s creation with the importance of children’s safety as the main concern. Introduction With the advancement of information technology in which all ages of users are being accommodated, everyone in today’s society has access to utilize all forms of information technology. The usage of information technology can include but is not limited to listening to music, watching movies/videos, playing games, communicating via email, social networks, or chat rooms, and getting help with school assignments. The researching of information via information technology...
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...advances in information technology that has resulted in new ethical issues arising that has necessitated the creation of various congressional acts. We will review two of these congressional acts, which are the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In both of these congressional acts, we will look at its purpose, the ethical issue/reason requiring the congressional act along with potential implications if the act did not exist. First, we will discuss the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Over the years as information technology became more advanced and widely used in the health and medical field, control measures needed to be established in order to provide additional protection to the rights of patients. On the same note, the medical field needed to be able to quickly share information through information technology in order to provide timely patient care as well. As a result of the need for patient rights while providing and protecting our society through information technology, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was established in 1996. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act require medical offices specifically doctors to ensure the protection and privacy of their patients medical information by using a nation-wide standard format when conducting transactions through the use of information systems. In addition, patient information may be...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper BIS/220 01-26-2012 Information Technology Acts Paper Advancements in information technology are made daily. Theses advancements have brought new ethical issues to the surface. Complexities that could not be imaged 30 years prior are making the public take a look back at privacy and how fast it is disappearing. The processing of data via the computer (Encarta, 2003), better known as information technology, brings with it the ability to gather and distribution of large amounts of data inexpensively. The majority of the data available on-line is the comprised of bits and pieces of everyone’s lives. The public has taken a closer look at the options they have to govern that data and protect their privacy. Two laws put into place to protect the public’s privacy were the Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 and the Childrens Internet Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 Some of the major advancements in information technology are the World Wide Web, electronic mail, mobile phones, and multiple communication device options. The combination of these advancements made individuals personal contact information very accessible. This gave telemarketers many different ways to contact possible customers. Many organizations used this opportunity to bombard, anyone unlucky enough to unknowingly provide their data, with multiple sale attempts. The Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 was in response to the unethical...
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...Information Technology Acts BIS/220 February 25, 2013 Abstract The basis of this paper is to explain the advances in information technology that ultimately resulted with the creation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 and the Children’s Online Protection Privacy Act (COPPA). These two acts are beneficial to the privacy of oneself regarding medical files and the protection that the Federal Trade Commission provides to children while they are using the Internet. The paper will go farther into detail about why these acts were created and how they are beneficial to society today and for our future. Information Technology Acts The many advances of information technology have resulted in ethical issues requiring the creation of many important acts. Information technology is a very important branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information. Two acts specifically are the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 and the Children’s Online Protection Privacy Act (COPPA). These acts were carried out for many reasons, including; but not limited to privacy of personal health care information and protecting our children’s identities on the Internet. According to Sage Knowledge (2009), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, also known as HIPAA, is a federal...
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...Information Technology Act Greg Bennett BIS/220 January 15, 2013 Nikia Johnson Information Technology Act Information technology continues to forge ahead and has done so from day one. Technology, moving forward, and becoming more advanced and sophisticated, adds growing concern over the ethical integrity of that technology. In correlation with those concerns, the United States government implemented various acts to aid control in these concerns and combat unethical behavior. Given the number of implemented acts, this paper focuses on two specific sections: the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970, and the U.S. Patriot Act of 2001. The implementation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 enabled each American to be on an even plane with credit opportunities. The government executed the U.S. Patriot Act in 2001, in part because of the atrocity of 9/11, to lessen terrorist activities by the use of the Internet and cyberspace. Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ordained to “protect consumers from the disclosure of inaccurate and arbitrary personal information held by consumer reporting agencies” (Consumer Privacy Guide (2001). The Fair Credit Reporting Act (1970). 2001). At the time when this act was established, American citizens were not viewed equally by credit facilities when attempting to purchase homes or vehicles. This act was a means of governing and guaranteeing equal opportunity and consideration for these...
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...Information Technology Acts Bruce Washington BIS/220 December 4, 2012 Troy Adams Information Technology Acts Throughout the years, technology has advanced at an ever increasing rate. Advances in information technology in particular, have made information that years ago, would have taken weeks or even months to gather, available at the push of a button. With information so readily available to anyone and everyone, new ethical issues arose that resulted in the need for regulations to be placed on how that information can be used. Acts such as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 1991 and the Do Not Call Implementation Act, 2003 were created to stem the tidal wave of telemarketing calls that swept the country and continue to aggravate and annoy millions of people. Calls that come just when dinner is being served, or at some other inappropriate time. The rise of computers and the internet, coupled with businesses that collect and store, then share or sell consumer information had made it easier for telemarketers to compile lists of prospective customers to bombard with unsolicited phone calls. Information such as what foods a person buys or what books they read or which websites they visit is all collected and stored in databases and then sold or shared without their knowledge or permission. Armed with such innovative technological wonders as the Autodialer and other predictive dialer systems consisting of electronic devices or software that automatically dials...
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...Computer Application and Systems James Boykin December 20, 2011 Abstract To ensure the legal security of communications between persons, associations, partnerships and the State, acts of information technology have been created to regulate many industries (Publications du Quebec, 2011). With the rapid change in technology and the misuse of information technology, laws needed to be created to regulate areas of data privacy, information transmitted digitally and to reduce the amount of paperwork. In this paper, the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 and the Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 will be highlighted. The ethical issues surrounding the creation of these acts due to the advances in information technology that let to these acts will be highlighted. Fair Credit Reporting Act, 1970 Due to our ability to house and store and control vast amounts of data with our computers, manipulate large amounts, there lies both social ethical implications with the use of these said computers. It is very easy to experience many right or wrong methods in using computers to access data and what can possibly be done with this information to use to our advantage. Cyber-crimes are committed every ten seconds and in order to combat it and to protect ourselves from it, laws, acts and amendments must be created and regulated by Congress to protect consumer’s rights. We make ourselves vulnerable on a daily basis to identity theft. Our privacy can be invaded very...
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...Information Technology Acts Kimberly Bundrick BIS/220 July 9, 2012 Heather Shankwiler Information Technology Acts There are several advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of certain acts. The two acts which will be discussed in this paper are the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000, and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. Children’s Internet Protection Act, 2000 The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law which was passed by Congress to allocate the offensive content over the Internet. CIPA obligates the schools and all public libraries to require filters on their computers to stop minors from accessing sites that are not appropriate. (Federal Communications Commission, n.d.) The (CIPA) was passed in December 2000. The main purpose of the CIPA is for the protection of children from obscene, child pornography and other dangers of the internet. CIPA does not precisely state what kind of filtering systems to use. This is the third law that Congress has passed to allocate concerns about the children’s access to the inappropriate Internet sites and it is the only one “that the U.S. Supreme Court found constitutionally defensible.” (Minnesota House of Representatives House Research, 2004) Our kids face online predators and other inappropriate things in chat rooms, online games, pictures of teens drinking, drugs, sexual messages, and even false information about them...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper Ryan Beland BIS/220 Mr. Vozella 7/28/2104 In today’s world we do not start our mornings with an essential meal, a cup of coffee, and reading the newspaper; but with the simple press of one of the most iconic buttons, the power button. The dramatic increase in technology demands the attention of almost every person across the globe as they connect, work, and coordinate daily plans and objectives with those close and far away. Information technology is one of the largest demanded and growing systems users have available. Information technology is the use of computer and telecommunication based systems; to store, send, manipulate, and retrieve data information across the various environments for the users utilizing the systems (Wikipedia, 2014). From professional, academic and personal situations these systems are more than ever present in the daily routine. The increased demand and use of these systems does make daily tasks easier and quicker to complete, but even the most beneficial tools can come with a cost. The information systems we utilize improve efficiency and effectiveness, but open doors for dangerous, illegal, and unethical actions. In order to control or limit these technological woes, various laws and procedures have been put in place to protect the users and societies that wish to implement these systems features into their lives. In this paper we will examine two laws specifically what they entail, the ethical dilemmas...
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...Information Technology Acts Technology advancements moves faster than mere mortals, or techno non-savvy people, can keep up with. All forms of technological advancements are popping up every day and with the good there seems to always be the bad. Electronic Funds Transfer Act, 1974 Once upon a time the simple task of purchasing goods included actually walking into the store and handing over currency to pay for the item. Today that same transaction can be done with a few clicks of a mouse. Funds or a work check are commonly directed deposited into an account and the client will access the funds via the web, cell phone, or ATM (automatic teller machine) and with a swipe of a card or even a finger print, funds can be transferred to the merchant for purchases. Due to this advancement in the way currency is now commonly handled the “Electronic Fund Transfer Act” was established. “It is the purpose of this title to provide a basic framework establishing the rights, liabilities, and responsibilities of participants in electronic fund transfer systems. The primary objective of this title, however, is the provision of individual consumer right” (FDIC, 2009). Fair Credit Reporting Act FTC.gov states that, “The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) promotes the accuracy, fairness and privacy of information in the files of consumer reporting agencies” (FTC, 2009). The act was put in place to protect consumers from fraud and inaccurate information being listed...
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