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Ethics for IT workers and IT users
Chapter 2
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Undergraduate 1
04/12/2012

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Profession
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A calling that requires specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic perparation
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Business Software Alliance (BSA)
Definition
Trade group that represents the would's largest software and hardware manufacturers; its mission is to stop the unauthorized copying of software produced by its memebers.
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Trade Secret
Definition
Information, Generally unknown to the public, that a company has taken strong measures to keep condifential. It represents something of economic value that has required effor or cost the develop and that has some degree of uniqueness or novelty.
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Whistle-Blowing
Definition
An effort to attract public attention to a negligent, illegal, unethical abusive, or dangerous act by a company or some other organization.
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Fraud
Definition
The crime of obtaining goods, services, or prperty through deception or trickery.
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Misrepresentation
Definition
The misstatement or incomplete statement of a material fact.
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Breach Of Contract
Definition
The failure of one arty to meet the terms of a contract.
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Material Breach Of Contract
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The failure of one party to perform certain express or implied obligations which impairs or destorys the essence of the contract
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Bribery
Definition
The act of providing money, prperty, or favors to someone in business or goverment to obtain a business advantage.
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U.S. Foreign Corrut Practices Act (FCPA)
Definition
A federal law that makes it a crime to bribe a foreign official a foreign political party official or a candidate for foreifn political office.
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Resume Inflation
Definition
Falsely claiming competence in a skill usually because that skill is in high demand.
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IT User
Definition
A person for whom a hardware or software product is designed
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Professional Code Of Ethics
Definition
A statement of the principles and core value that are essential to the work of a particular occupational group.
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Certification
Definition
A recongnition that a professional possesses a particular set of skills, knowledge, or abilities in a opinion of the certifying organization.
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Government Licensing
Definition
A government issued permission to engage in an activity or to operate a business it is generally administered at the state level and often rewuires that the recipient pass a test of some kind.
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Body of Knowledge
Definition
An agreed upon set of skills and abilities that all licensed professionals in a particular type of profession must possess
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Negligence
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The failure to do what a reasonable person would do or doing something that is reasonable person would not do.
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Duty Of Care
Definition
The obligation to protect people againist any unreasonable harm or risk.
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Reasonable Person Standard
Definition
a legal standard that defins how an objective, careful, and conscientious person would have acted in the same circumstances.
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Reasonable Professional Standard
Definition
A legal standard that defendants who have particular experties or competence are measured against.
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Breach Of The Duty Of Care
Definition
The failure to act as a resonable person would act.
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Professional Malpartice
Definition
Breach of the duty of care by professional
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Firewall
Definition
A hardware or software device that serves as a barrier between an organization's network and the internet; a firewall aslo limity access to the company's network based on the organixation's internet usage policy.
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