...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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...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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...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 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...
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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 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 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 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 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 Advances in technology made it possible to obtain almost any information needed by accessing the World Wide Web. These advances have also paved the way for predators and unwarranted solicitors to retrieve private information. Most homes are either equipped with or have access to a computer and Internet. This technology used to be reserved for the government and businesses but is readily available for the individual consumer. The advances have not only made it possible to access information at home but also encourage teenagers and younger children to participate in gathering information via the Internet. Access to the web by children led to the enactment of laws such as the Children Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). These acts were implemented as a security method to aid in the protection of minors. Some websites containing nudity, online pornography, and other explicit content are banned from exploiting children. Children are viewed as easy victims to trick into providing private information or soliciting monetary compensation for obscene content. Because of this perception, additional laws are necessary to protect children when in comes to information technology. CIPA places restrictions on schools and libraries such as limiting the support of federal funding if certain requirements are not adhered. This act was signed by former President Bill Clinton in December 21, 2000. The design...
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...Nowadays, technology is advancing at an exponential rate. Over the last two decades or so, everyone in the world has essentially become connected to one another via computer, the internet, and social media. But as the world becomes more connected, does it also become more vulnerable? Let’s be honest, not everyone in the world has everyone else’s best interest at heart. How many times have you had to turn off the ringer of your phone because of the nonstop assault of telemarketer calls? How many emails have you received saying you’ve won the lottery in London or that the Prince of Nigeria would like to conduct business with you? It is these types of issues that motivated the United States Congress to enact several laws to protect America and its citizens from technological attacks and exploitation. In this paper, I will describe two such acts and discuss the advances in technology that resulted in new ethical issues making each such act necessary. In 2002, the United States Government enacted the Federal Information Security Management Act (44 U.S.C. § 3541, et seq.), or FISMA. FISMA recognizes the significance of information security to the economic and national security interests of the United States and mandates that each federal agency develops documents, and implements an agency wide program to provide information security for that agency ("FISMA Center", 2010). This law was enacted due to the thousands of cyber-attacks of several Federal Agencies by both foreign and domestic...
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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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...Information Technology Act Paper December 15, 2013 BIS/220 Curtis E. Maybee The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was put into play in the year 2000. This law was put through by Congress to help make known the content that children are able to access within schools and libraries that are not appropriate for their age. Before the CIPA was implemented and made a law by the federal government it was very easy for children to look up information without any consent from an adult. Even today there is no way that an adult could stay by a computer with a child to watch what he or she are doing. This is where CIPA comes into effect. Many issues and advances of computer technology made the internet a gateway to information and content that could be streamed very easy. Because of this the CIPA was able create and ensure internet safety by making blocking features so negative content cannot be filtered through. This applies to all school and library computers with the possibility of having content such as but not limited to child pornography and violent games or videos. Almost all schools receive aid and funds to make sure that they abide by this law. Another act that was put through that is similar to CIPA is the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act also known as COPPA. This law was passed in 1998 to assist parents in keeping track with what information their children are posting on the internet. With the internet getting very popular children are now using it for everything...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper Esan Williams BIS/220 June 11, 2012 Professor Evie Garrreau Advances in information technology (IT) are meant to improve various aspects of life. Unfortunately, IT advances are resulting in a growing amount of ethical issues. The major ethical issues associated with IT advancements are privacy, property, accuracy, and ease of access to sensitive information. Privacy can easily be breached when information is stored in databases and shared over networks. Ethical issues due to advances in IT call for the creation of new acts to protect consumers. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991 and the Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 are two perfect examples of Acts being created as direct results of IT advancements coupled with ethical issues. The advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of the TCPA of 1991 and the Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 consisted of computer networks, predominantly the Internet, allowing organizations to collect, combine, store, and share massive amounts of data on institutions, groups, even individuals (Rainer & Cegielski, 2011). Access to specific consumer demographic information basically became potential leads for telemarketing organizations. Once the leads were accessed, telemarketing businesses used call centers to push the products or services they sold. IT advances forced Congress’ hand to offer some semblance...
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...advances in information technology resulted in new ethical issues that needed to addressed and necessitating the creation of The United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 are to be addressed in this paper. The advancement in information technology such as the world wide web, search engines, YouTube, and virtual databases have made it easily accessible to obtain personal information, but also grant anyone access to age-inappropriate sites. The United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (referred to in this article as the "Act") was an amendment to the Counterfeit Access Device and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984 (the "1984 Act"). It was the first comprehensive legislation in the United States to identify and provide for the prosecution of crimes committed through and against computer systems (Zegarelli, 2002). The initial 1984 Act addressed crimes in a very limited circle involving the government computers, but also consumer credit and government data, but did not cover any areas outside the afore mentioned scopes. Technology advancements made it necessary to protect everyone’s privacy since it had become much easier to store and access an individual’s personal data within a corporation’s database. According to our text: “privacy is the right to be left alone and to be free of unreasonable personal intrusions. Information privacy is the right to determine when, and to what extent, information about yourself...
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