Information Technology and Law The use of the Internet for communication‚ marketing‚ and commerce necessitated government regulation through the establishment of various acts. As the Internet grew in use by people of all ages many people had begun to use it for the collection of private information. As e-mail grew commonplace in the 1990s‚ many unscrupulous users would collect e-mail addresses for mass marketing purposes. Credit card fraud began to rise so profusely that many credit card companies
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November 13‚ 2011 Information technology has revolutionized the way accounting is done. Long gone is the time of manually entering numbers into big bulky ledgers and journal books. Technology has also taken away the stigma associated with accountants. They have long been considered “bean counters” and introverts. This is no longer the case since leaning over ledgers and adding numbers on a calculator all day is a thing of the past. People skills have emerged as an important part of the accounting
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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
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Introduction: An Accounting information system collects‚ store and process the data into information which is being used by the managers‚ investors and creditors. These systems includes software which makes things easy to process the financial data for bookkeeping‚ Payroll and tax purposes. Accounting information systems are based on 6 components. * An Application to process the financial data. * Policies and procedures to secure the financial data. * Users who will use this system
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The Digital World Why is IT such a powerful force? Pervasive‚ encourages innovation Improve business processes – allows businesses to use new tools to analyse data Cash study: Synergy Sports Technology Problem: lack of hard data usable in decision-making processes; costly and competitive market Solution: developed new system – collects and organises data using video clips of games Rise of digital firm Significant business relationships are digitally enabled and mediated Core business processes
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Hendrickson What role do international organizations play in the effort to reduce poverty in the poorest countries in the world? International organizations are formal institutions whose members are states. The power of the government and its member-states within the organization are outlined in a formal charter or treaty. Although governments are free to join voluntarily‚ assuming membership means agreeing to abide by the rules of the charter. International organizations also facilitate cooperation
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Information Technology Acts That Work Introduction to Computer Application and Systems Information Technology Acts That Work Over the last three to four decades‚ computers and technology are improving very rapidly. Electronic devices seem to be taking over everything we do. There are many people who unfortunately‚ lost their jobs because of new technology. For example‚ according to Voorhis (2010)‚ “Some of the 13‚000 Wichita-area jobs lost since 2008 are gone
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Week 2 – HIPAA and Information Technology Checkpoint There are several advantages in having a standardized medical database. The most important advantage is a standardized medical database will offer medical facilities access to the patient records more easily. If a patient decides to change health care providers or if an emergency situation arose the patient would be able to receive service immediately. The database will contain patient’s medical information‚ so that if a patient were to encounter
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Communications Technology Essay (1060 words) Communications is defined as the process of sending and receiving information from one person to another. Communications Technology is all the systems we use when we communicate‚ this technology helps us to communicate without the need to be face – to – face with each other. This includes telephone‚ radio‚ television‚ computers and mobile phones. Mobile phones and telephones can be defined as the process when two people are making a conversation over
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Explosion of Information. The increased Management Complexities could be attributed to:- 1. Management Science Technologies. 2. Decision – Making. 3. Onset of Computers. 4. Information Feedback System. These complexities have in turn necessitated:- 1. Strategic Planning. 2. Setting of Objectives (Parameters). 3. Devising Operational Plans. 4. Obtaining / Processing / Storing; Retrieving and using information for decision – making. Hence; information is today seen
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