Genetic Discrimination Secret genetic testing at Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad lead the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to file a discrimination law suit against the company for potentially using the information obtained in these test against their employees. The Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) referenced the American Disability Act’s statement that “it is unlawful to conduct genetic testing with the intent to discriminate in the workplace” Burlington Northern
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Information Technology Acts Paper Aaron Smith BIS/220 April 9‚ 2013 Gordon Jensen Information Technology Acts Paper This paper will explore two information technology acts; along with what ethical issues and information technology advances that caused the acts to be in place. The two acts that will be covered will be the electronic funds transfer act of 1978‚ and the children’s internet protection act of 2000. According to Rainer and Cegielski (2011) “Ethics refers to the principles of right
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Information Technology Acts Paper Shawanda Donelson BIS/220 March 31‚ 2012 Jacquelyn Jones Information Technology Acts Paper In the 1990s the Internet became popular‚ which children then had unsupervised access. Children were exposed to porn and other harmful materials. Congress tried to stop it and put it into law‚ but each direction it went was determined as being unconstitutional. To an extent‚ technology finally prevailed. Congress should not pass a law penalizing distributors
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What were the advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of each act? BIS/229 09/05/2012 Malinda Marsh Week 1 Assignment In today’s volatile information era‚ information technology has revolutionized advertisement methods to consumers. The use of advancement in information technology‚ such as automated and prerecorded messages caused numerous controversies and complaints to the government authority. This engaged the Federal
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authority has to reply back within 30 days with proper explanation. It gives every citizen a fundamental right to seek information from any government department. The Law is applicable to all constitutional authorities‚ including the executive‚ legislature and judiciary; any institution or body established or constituted by an act of Parliament or a state legislature. RTI Act not only covers the executives rather the judiciary and legislature are also under its strict regulations. There
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Information Technology Acts Paper Information Technology Acts Paper Fair Credit Reporting Act‚ 1970 Congress enacted the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA or the Act) in 1970[1] to define the standards of practice for credit reporting agencies and the rights of people who are subjects of credit reports. (Maurer V. G.‚ 1997). Before this people had no means to verify information which was reported to creditors‚ insurance companies or anyone who needed to check a person’s credit report. Mistake
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Information Technology Acts Paper Angie Thompson BIS/220 April- 5/2012 KYLE JOHNSON Information Technology Acts Paper The Children ’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was brought before legislation in December of 2000 and signed off by President Clinton. The law was brought about to protect children from certain internet usage that could be accessed at public and school libraries. Although there were officials that tried to overturn this bill‚ stating that the bill limited ones First Amendment
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Information Technology Acts Paper John Don BIS/220 February 11‚ 2013 Harry Porter The two Acts discussed in this paper are the Video Privacy Protection Act (1988)‚ and the Controlling the Assault of Non-solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act‚ (2003). These two acts were both enacted because along with the development of technology new issues arose in which no legal precedence had yet been established. These Acts were also both created nearly immediately after it was realized that
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Information Technology Acts Paper With the internet changing constantly every day the United States Congress are implementing many legislative acts to address concerns with the usage of different kinds of technology. There are many advances in information technology that resulted in ethical issues such as the creation of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) which was put into law in the year of 2000 by Congress. This law addresses any concerns about access to offensive content on the internet
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Information Technology Acts Paper Patrick Johnson BIS/220 March 6‚ 2013 Oner Celepcikay Information Technology Acts Paper (Don’t Call Implementation Act‚ 2003 And Telephone Consumer Protection Act‚ 1988) Has there ever been a time when dinner is just about to start and in the middle of saying prayer the phone rings? Dad gets up to answer the phone and on the other end is a telemarketer. The
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