...Information Technology Acts Paper Jamie Smith BIS / 220 April 14, 2014 John Maloney Information Technology Acts Paper Since the dawn of computer based technology, ever evolving laws, legislation, and acts are created for the protection of the public as more and more security risks are identified. As technology grows, so do the potential abuses of the availability of data, personal information, has required law makers to address the issues and enact penalties that are associated with those abuses. Among many of the legislative acts passed due to the advancement of technology, the two acts that will be described help protect the consumer, the creditors, the government, and the public in general. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act, (TCPA), 1991 was created due to the advancement of telephone technology and the data available made cause for concern for the interests of the public. Another concern for abuse necessitating the need for legislation was the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 1970. The FCRA was put in place to protect the accuracy and fairness of creditor reporting to the major credit bureaus. Information technology advances and the uses and abuses of them, necessitated the TCPA, 1991 and FCRA, 1978 acts as well as the amendments since inception due to further technological advances. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 was enacted to require the Federal Communications Commission...
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...Technology Acts Paper Mary Phillips BIS/220 April 2, 2012 Jacqueline Sirota Technology Acts Paper My technology acts paper will be on the Children’s Internet Protection Act, 2000 and on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), 1998. Congress has done its part to protect our children with strict laws by enacting some changes in the way our children view the internet and how our children With the many changes in technology congress has to come up with new ethical issues that they have to create certain acts to protect our children. The government came up with the Children Internet Protection Act, 2001. Children are around computers most of the time. Computers are becoming part of our lives not only for grownups but for our children and adolescents too. Some children might not have a computer at home but they use one in school. Where there is a computer there is internet. The internet connects computers, cell phones, mainframes and any internet ready enabled device. Anyone, as long as they have an internet enabled device can use the internet. The internet is a massive public spiderweb of computer connections (Gil, 2012). Since anyone regardless of age can use the internet without any form of knowing who or what age they are they can browse any webpage they want. They can see explicit online content and even some online nudity. There is much internet pornography online and is open to anyone whom clicks on their link. It is no wonder the congress came up with...
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...| Technology Acts Paper | BIS/220 | University of Phoenix | | The Do Not Call Implementation Act provides consumers with the opportunity to decline solicitation calls. This act also advised tax payers of the fees that would be associated with the creation and upkeep of an ongoing list of phone numbers that are not to be called. For this registry, a list of phone numbers that is up to date and current must be kept in a central and general location so that telephone solicitation will not reach the people who are on this list. The Do Not Call Website has a location where you can have your phone number listed on the website they also feature a location to report solicitors who are not following the clear guidelines stipulated by the Do Not Call Implementation Act. During my research I came across a list of exceptions to the Act’s guidelines. For example, consumers who are registered may still be contacted by politicians, and not-for-profit organizations. This same website says that consumers may be contacted by any company that they have conducted business within 31 days unless they specifically asked not to be contacted. For this Implementation act technology and contacts would need to be created to verify that phone numbers on the list were registered to the correct person and were still in service. This technology may have been no more than a simple Microsoft Excel Database that needs to be checked against carrier records. This technology also could be a super...
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...What were advances in information technology that resulted in ethical issues with the creation of HIPAA and CIPA What were the advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of each act? HIPPA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability, was passed by Congress in 1996. According to Cornerstone On Demand, 2012 “HIPAA regulates the interchange of private patient data to help prevent unlawful disclosure or release of their medical information.” Consequently Congress recognized that advancement in technology could subsequently release health information that should remain confidential to the patients. In turn, Congress assimilated two additional laws to strengthen HIPAA; HITECH and ACA. With advancement in technology, HIPAA forced physicians to consider more cautiously how confidential information may be transmitted to others. Basically HIPAA enforced a patients privacy right as well established a sense of security for patient data. Children’s Internet Protection Act, CIPA was passed by Congress in 2003. According to Wikipedia, 3/12 “CIPA requires K-12 schools as well as libraries use internet filters and implement other measures to protect children from harmful or obscene content CIPA enforces certain requirements on schools and/or libraries that receive discounts for internet access or internal connections.” Unfortunately with the advancement in technology, children at a younger age understand the use of a computer...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper University of Phoenix Information Technology Acts Paper To start, I will begin with introducing my first Act that I am covering, The "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act Of 2003" Otherwise known as the (CAN-SPAM Act) of 2003. The CAN-SPAM Act defines a "commercial electronic mail message" ("CEMM") as any electronic mail message, the primary purpose of which is commercial advertisement or the promotion of a commercial product or service (including content on an Internet web site operated for a commercial purpose). To put it all in a nutshell the best I can; Emails and the internet are now becoming more and more popular now it’s 2003. Advancement in Computer systems and electronic mail messages led to a big increase in business’s in America sending misleading or deceptive emails to try to sell a product or service. To summarize it in a few sentences, businesses were flat out lying via subject headings, addresses, having multiple email accounts, etc. etc. Also, Sending a CEMM that includes sexually oriented material without adequate warnings in the subject heading and an opt out message prior to displaying any additional information in the message is prohibited. With Microsoft, Apple, and others producing advancement in computers, phones, and technology, the internet was becoming a portal for pornography companies and others to sell their product or service. The American public got tired of it and told...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper MPS BIS/220 July 21, 2014 JM Information Technology Acts Paper With the advancement of technology, like practically everything which exists, comes the pros and the cons, the advantages and disadvantages, the benefits and the liabilities. The Internet or the World Wide Web is no different. It has exposed individuals to a literal wealth of information. It has opened borders, exposed cultures and vastly improved knowledge and productivity. In essence, the Internet has made the world a "smaller" place in that, a person can hold a face-to-face conversation with another person on the other side of the world without ever boarding a plane and information can be sent hundreds of thousands of miles in seconds. But this information highway is not only used to share useful and appropriate information but also harmful and offensive messages, leaving the most vulnerable users, children, at risk. In an effort to protect American children using the vast and almost uncensored internet, in 2000, two Acts took effect, the Children's Internet Protection Act, 1998 and Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 2000. Due to the advancement in information technology and rising ethical issues, these Acts were necessary in order to hold internet vendors and website operators accountable for the proper handling of children where their personal information and the nature of the information they are exposed to are applicable. The first Act, The Children's Internet...
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...BIS/220 Version 1 April 9, 2010 Information Technology Acts Paper Many laws have been implemented by Congress to protect the integrity of United States citizens. With this fast technology growth. Several of these laws are not even ten years old, especially some Information Technology Acts. As the nation grows, our laws grow just as fast. Information Technology is the “acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of telecommunications and computing”. Includes various areas incluing, computer software and hardware, programming langueages and processes. After doing extensive research in a lot of the Technology Acts, the following acts are going to be discussed within this paper; Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, (CFAA) 1986 and Children’s Protection Act, 2000 (CIPA). CFAA was introduced to reduce cracking of computer systems and to address Federal computer related offenses. This act, which is codified as 18 U.S.C § 1030 covers most federal computer related offenses. California was the first state to legislate a reporting requirement for computer hackers. The CFAA mainly deals with people who have exceeded the scope of authorized access and computer hackers. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The CFAA knows that a cyber-attack can damage a business as well as incur substantial costs responding to unauthorized use or computer hacking. It would not surprise me...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper The two acts I have selected to write about are the Do Not Call Act of 2003 and the Child’s Internet Protection Act. This paper will provide an understanding why the law required these acts to be established and why each of them played an important role in improving information technology. The first act to be discussed is the Child’s Internet Protection Act and the second act is Do Not Call Act of 2003. Child’s Internet Protection Act The Child’s Internet Protection Act also known as CIPA was established in 2000 by congress to directly address the concerns of children being able to access obscene and harmful sites through the internet. The CIPA imposes specific set of requirements on libraries and schools that receive discounted rate for internet access. In 2001 the FCC issues guidelines and updates to the rules in 2011. CIPA states that any school or library may not qualify for the discounts offered from the E-rate program unless the school or library has a an internet safety policy that covers technology protection measures that blocks obscene, harmful to minors, and child pornography ("Children’s Internet Protection Act", n.d.). The internet is not monitored and because of this children require supervision when access the websites. Schools that are subjected to CIPA rules must meet two additional requirements: 1. Internet safety polices will include monitoring online use of minors 2. Must provide education to minors on appropriate...
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...Information Technology Act Paper Dannie Roettger BIS220 February 14, 2013 Paul Kirchner Information Technology Act Paper In the ever changing fast paced world of information technology where information is bought, sold and traded for financial gain. Our governments have had to invent laws to ensure that our personal information is safe and not being used improperly. Two of the laws or acts we will explore in this paper are the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970. We will look why these laws were enacted and the benefits that have come from these acts. The first act we are going to look at is the telephone consumer protection act. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act or the TCPA was passed on December 20, 1991 and went in to affect just one year later ("Telephone Consumer Protection Act (tcpa)", 2012). This act was put in place to stop the harassing telemarketers and regulate the selling of personal information. The TCPA was passed to regulate telemarketers and to add some ethical guidelines to their operating practices. Some of the benefits that came from the TCPA was telemarketers could only call residents between the hours of 8 AM and 9 PM. Another regulation that came from the telephone consumer protection act was the No Call List ("Telephone Consumer Protection Act (tcpa)", 2012). If a person requested to be on the no call list the telemarketer must place that consumer on the no call list and not call the consumer again....
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...Information Technology Acts Paper Justine Huffman BIS/220 July 28, 2014 Vivien Lewis Information Technology Acts Paper With the advances in information technology (IT) today, individual’s personal and business lives are improving in a numerous amount of ways. Regrettably, with new technology advances, comes a growing amount of ethical issues such as an invasion of property, privacy and easy access to sensitive information. With personal information being stored in databases and shared over the web privacy can be breached with just a couple clicks of a button. Ethical issues that have formed from the advancements in IT call for new acts to be put in place to protect the privacy of today’s consumers. The Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 and the Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 are examples of Acts that are being created because of the ethical issue being formed from the advancements in IT. The Children’s Internet Protection Act was sign in to law on December 21, 2000 by President Bill Clinton. This act was designed for public libraries and public schools to apply filters and monitoring to block visual depictions of obscenity, child pornography and material harmful to minors (Canon, 2001). Before schools or libraries adopt the act the must hold at least one public hearing or meeting to address the proposal. Schools and libraries must meet two certification requirements: 1) the Internet safety policy must monitor the online activities of minors and 2)...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper George Tomadakis BIS/220 January 16, 2012 Marry Robbins Information Technology Acts Paper Pornography has been legally available in the United States since the 1970’s. It was controlled from being readily available to minors just by the nature that it had to be sold in a physical state (magazine, DVD). There was an adult involved the majority of the time providing it to another adult face to face. This was a very sound control. Then the Internet came in the 1990’s, children had unsupervised access. The porn industry went crazy; they would do anything to get anyone to their sites. Children were being exposed to it and it was deemed harmful. Congress tried to pass laws to stop it, but every direction they went was determined to be unconstitutional. Finally technology prevailed, to an extent. Maybe Congress could not pass a law that would penalize the distributor; they could pass a law that would affect the end user that received federal money. On December 15, 2000 Congress added the Children’s Internet Protection Act and President Bill Clinton signed it into law on December 21, 2000. The Act places restrictions on entities receiving Federal funding. They must use policies and technology that blocks or filters certain material from being accessed using the internet. ("American Library Association", 1997-2012). The Internet with all of its wonders was not only being used to show are children imagery and information, the technology was being...
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...Information Technology Act Lizette Ortiz-Ortiz BIS/220 November 13, 2012 Professor Aníbal López-Torres Information Technology Act * Electronic Funds Transfer Act of 1978 * The Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Act was signed by Jimmy Carter on 1978. The purpose of the creation of this act was to protect peoples and institutions money on electronic transactions. This act is part of the Credit Card Consumers Act and the ETF was not considered this act was created. “The EFT Act contains important provisions concerting entry of consumers into the EFT system, delineation of rights of parties involved in EFT use, and establishment of liability for unlawful EFT use” (Fox, 1980, p. 212). The definition for EFT in the act is “a transfer of funds is initiated through an electronic terminal, telephone, computer (including on-line banking) or magnetic tape for the purpose of ordering, instructing, or authorizing a financial institution to debit or credit a consumer’s account. EFTs include, but are not limited to point-of-sale (POS) transfers; automated teller machine (ATM) transfers; direct deposits or withdrawals of funds; transfers initiated by telephone; and transfers resulting from debit card transactions, whether or not initiated through an electronic terminal” (Electronic Funds Transfer Act of 1978, Section 205.3(b)). By having EFT defined, clearly can demonstrate...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper Bis/220 3/9/2013 Paul Porch Information Technology Acts Paper The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act) was created in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This act once passed became a law almost immediately, less than two months after the attacks. This Act has been modified thru the years implementing better rules to help protect our country. In 2006 the Act was modified once again, this time including a some modifications with technology. “The Act brought the law up to date with current technology, so we no longer have to fight a digital-age battle with antique weapons-legal authorities leftover from the era of rotary telephones. When investigating the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, for example, law enforcement used one of the Act's new authorities to use high-tech means to identify and locate some of the killers.” ("Justice Information Sharing Department Of Justice"). This Act also extends to law enforcement and foreign intelligence purposes. The purpose of the Act was to enable the government to investigate any potential terrorist more efficiently and effectively. “It expands the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to regulate the activities of U.S. financial institutions, to combat money laundering.” (“The PATRIOT Act Revisited ,” 2004). As with anything the government...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper Joseph Morales University of Phoenix BIS 220 Gregory Peterson March 11, 2014 Information Technology Acts Paper With the advent of technology and many uses of it, come new ethical problems. Technology has helped out in many ways such as making business and personal communication efficient and effective. It has also changed how companies run the business and how consumers purchase goods. Technology has also made it much easier to do research and review things that are of interest or needed for many things. The internet is an example and one of the most widely used for all of these technological purposes. Telecommunications such as phones is another technology and has been around for some time now but has been exploited for unethical uses. Unethical uses of telecommunications and the internet is also a reason why some of these acts such as the Do Not Call Implementation Act, 2003 and the Children’s Internet Protection Act has been put in place. To bombard people with phone calls to solicit business is believed to be unethical. This is a reason why the Do Not Call Implementation Act, 2003 was put into place. By inputting any personal information on the internet such as when applying for a new credit card for example, that opens the flood gates to solicitors accessing that information and potentially inundating one with phone calls. This act made it illegal for telemarketers to contact registered phone numbers, the law did not extent to...
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...ASHLEI MCQUEEN Information Technology Acts Paper BIS/220 PROFESSOR ZAMIR DEEN July 21, 2014 Information Technology Acts Paper The Controlling the Assault of Non-solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act, 2003 was enacted into law in January 2004 (Kigerl, 2009). This law was created from the enormous bulk spam in emails that hit airwaves I the 2000 's. everyone now has a computer of some sort Weathersby desktop laptop or tablet well and the new millennium decade everyone had a desktop home computer. What kept reoccurring was some of these balk messages would contain pornographic material and unwanted irritating and embarrassing material into people's inboxes of their email. This created a really bad phenomenon of people not liking to use email because I cannot tell what real email was and what was junk and there was nothing to break down each email or monitor what you were really writing to people because of all the horrendous spam. This is when can spam Law was created it big knowledge the ethical issues and recognized the marketing downfall people would face if they cannot protect email users from unwanted messages . As far as it manages an informational technology based on the ethical issues above they have had many advancements. For one the email service allows people to write a message to anyone on the continent with the click of a button. However many features have made ethical problems and prevailed through and made spam one of the most unwanted things...
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