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WGU Practice Quiz Leave the first rating Students also studied Terms in this set (60) Western Governors UniversityD 333 Save Ethics in Technology Teacher 332 terms HeatherWilsonWGU Preview WGU D333 Ethics in Technology - W...332 terms DrkintrudrPreview WGU - Practical Applications of Pro...172 terms BO151Preview WGU D 35 terms Previe A healthcare company decides to adopt an artificial intelligence (AI) solution to help identify which doctors and drugs will provide the greatest value to patients. The data team is feeding four years of data into the system, including pharmacy and insurance claims. Based on this data, the AI will make recommendations based on which doctors and drugs should result in the best healthcare outcomes for patients. A data scientist is concerned about the disparate data sources and the fact that all information about a patient's medical history and ongoing treatment will be easily accessible. What should the data scientist provide to the AI to ensure a comprehensive data set?Electronic health record (EHR)
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What is the difference between ethics and morals? Ethics reflect a societal code of behavior, whereas morals reflect personal principles.
What is a reason for organizations to pursue corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals?Gain goodwill
A new startup tech company plans to provide secure wireless access within its office for employees and other trusted visitors. The company has concerns about competitors eavesdropping or compromising the connections and obtaining unauthorized access to the company's intellectual property. The company is considering using Wireless Protected Access 2 (WPA2) to secure data in transit. Which protocol does this wireless protection implement?Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
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Which two intellectual property items are protected by a patent?Inventions/Tools
A researcher develops a new model based on artificial intelligence (AI) to assist with tracking the movement of foreign nationals into and out of the United States. Due to ongoing civil unrest in Middle Eastern countries, the researcher wants to ensure that the nationality marker within the data set is not affected by AI bias. Which concept should be applied to the data set to reduce or eliminate AI bias?Protected attribute
Two programmers disagree about which philosophical theory is best suited for their autonomous vehicles. One programmer suggests their vehicle should always choose the greatest good for the greatest number of people.Which philosophical theory encapsulates this stance?Utilitarianism
A local community opposes the building of a new factory in its neighborhood and has organized on social media to run a posting campaign to shut down construction. To silence community members, the building corporation decides to go to court to intimidate them. Which threat is the corporation implementing?Strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP)
A store manager of a home service company hires a data entry clerk to process customer returns. The data entry clerk is trained to enter data in the system for every customer record. An internal audit shows typographical mistakes in customers' records for the last two weeks.Which data aspect does the home service company need to address to reduce errors?Accuracy
A company is using software to track workforce operational activity. Management communicates that the data collected will be treated as sensitive. Administrative and technical security measures are put in place to protect employee data. These measures include periodically culling records that are no longer relevant.Which additional measure should be taken to safeguard employee data from misuse?Limit who can view employee data
A company provides machine learning software that helps judges make decisions in parole hearings by assigning each person up for parole a score estimating the probability that they will commit another crime if paroled. The model was trained on the profiles of incarcerated people and information on whether they were sent back to prison after release. Race was not a variable that was included in the training data. However, it was uncovered that the model gave higher probabilities to members of certain races. It was found that a proxy variable was inadvertently included. Which data point in the incarcerated peoples' profiles was likely the variable understood by the machine learning models as a proxy for race?Zip code
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An international organization based in a foreign country invites a U.S. ambassador to help promote its communications business. In exchange for the promotion, the president of the organization offers the ambassador a family trip package for 15 days as a thank-you gesture, with a bonus check of an undisclosed amount.Which law did the organization potentially violate?Responses Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
A newly founded IT startup has ambitious goals for the upcoming year and decides to rapidly onboard many contingent workers. What are two potential disadvantages of hiring contingent workers from the startup's perspective?Employees feeling disconnected from the company/Ethical dilemmas from employment with no benefits
The marketing department of a financial services institution asks data scientists to build a consumer profile based on transaction data. Although company lawyers approve the request to explicitly signal customers with potential gambling addiction problems, the data scientists refuse to build the profiles.What describes this request?Unethical and legal
A project team at an animal welfare agency is using predictive analytics to help take animals out of abusive environments. The algorithm the team designed has a false positive rate that is higher than zero, which means that some animals could be removed erroneously if the algorithm's recommendations are followed. The project owner understands that pets may wrongfully be removed from loving healthy homes but decides to use the algorithm anyway because it will happen only a small percentage of the time. Which ethical theory does this represent?Consequentialism
A retail company experiences a data breach. Customer data is stolen, including credit card numbers, names, addresses, and account passwords. The attackers have amassed enough combinations of personally identifiable information (PII) to commit identity theft. Which adverse impacts, in addition to the loss of business, does the company face?Reputational damage and the need to provide support for victims
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An IT company holds itself accountable for how its actions affect its shareholders, consumers, employees, community, the environment, and suppliers. What is this company demonstrating?Corporate social responsibility
An IT manager implements security measures at the organization, network, application, and employee levels.Which approach to security is the manager using?Layered
Which ethical concept is related to the right to use a person's or an organization's intangible creative activities?Property
A company is engaged as a third party to perform debt collection on behalf of a telecommunications provider.The company operates an outbound call center to contact debtors and set up payment arrangements. The company needs to ensure that the debtors' data privacy is not at risk. Which two areas should the company ensure are properly managed?Insider access/ Network security
A university is authoring a code of ethics for its professors to abide by to promote high standards of practice and ethical behavior. What are the two main parts of a code of ethics the university should include?Outline of the organization's aspirations/List of rules and principles to follow
A patient received treatment at an urgent care facility.Prior to being seen, the patient completed the required Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) forms. The doctor recorded all relevant treatment data in the urgent care facility's electronic medical record (EMR) system. Which entity is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the patient's medical information stored in the EMR?The urgent care facility
A social media website collected personal information about consumers when they subscribed to the service.Subscribers opted in or out before creating their online profiles.Which European Union Data Protection Directive did the website follow?Choice
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