Chapter 07
Ethical Decision Making: Technology and Privacy in the Workplace
True/False Questions
1. (p. 255) Privacy issues in the workplace raise ethical issues involving individual rights as well as those involving deontological consequences.
FALSE
Privacy issues in the workplace raise ethical issues involving individual rights as well as those involving utilitarian consequences.
AACSB: 2
BT: Knowledge
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1
2. (p. 257) Limiting access of personal information on the basis of the relationship that one shares with members of society is one way to preserve one's personal integrity.
TRUE
Limiting access of personal information to only those with whom one has a personal relationship is one important way to preserve one's own personal integrity and individuality.
AACSB: 2
BT: Knowledge
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 1
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3. (p. 257) The right to privacy, which is founded on a universal right to autonomy, is restricted by a prevalent social contract in our culture.
TRUE
The right to privacy is founded in the individual's fundamental, universal right to autonomy, in our right to make decisions about our personal existence without restriction. This right is restricted by a social contract in our culture.
AACSB: 2, 3
BT: Knowledge
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 1
4. (p. 258) The value of privacy to civilized society is as great as the value of hypernorms to civilized existence.
TRUE
The value of privacy to civilized society is as great as the value of the various hypernorms to civilized existence.
AACSB: 2
BT: Knowledge
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 2
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5. (p. 259) The ‘invasion of privacy' claim is one that developed through case law called
"intrusion into