Is spyware ethical? Why or why not?
Not what you're looking for?
Is spyware ethical? Why or why not?
The notion of what constitutes spyware is still a bit unsure. No one quite agrees on a definition, but generally speaking, spyware is software (or, less frequently, hardware) installed on a computer without the target user's knowledge and meant to monitor the user's conduct. Most of the time, in domestic practice, the target is e-mail and chat room activities, but spyware can record everything the user does on the computer, including financial record keeping, the preparation in a word-processing program of letters to counsel, or the updating of business records.
Some spyware programs will hijack your web browser, reset your home page, add toolbars, alter search results, or send pop-up ads that cannot be closed. Recently, many programs come with a re-installerâ?"as soon as you attempt to remove the software, it reloads itself...
Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary
The notion of what constitutes spyware is still a bit unsure. No one quite agrees on a definition, but generally speaking, spyware is software (or, less frequently, hardware) installed on a computer without the target user's knowledge and meant to monitor the user's conduct.
Solution Preview
The notion of what constitutes spyware is still a bit unsure. No one quite agrees on a definition, but generally speaking, spyware is software (or, less frequently, hardware) installed on a computer without the target user's knowledge and meant to monitor the user's conduct. Most of the time, in domestic practice, the target is e-mail and chat room activities, but spyware can record everything the user does on the computer, including financial record keeping, the preparation in a word-processing program of letters to ...
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
MS Word 2010-Tricky Features
These questions are based on features of the previous word versions that were easy to figure out, but now seem more hidden to me.
IPOs
This Quiz is compiled of questions that pertain to IPOs (Initial Public Offerings)
Understanding Management
This quiz will help you understand the dimensions of employee diversity as well as how to manage a culturally diverse workforce.
Business Ethics Awareness Strategy
This quiz is designed to assess your current ability for determining the characteristics of ethical behavior. It is essential that leaders, managers, and employees are able to distinguish between positive and negative ethical behavior. The quicker you assess a person's ethical tendency, the awareness empowers you to develop a strategy on how to interact with them.
Cost Concepts: Analyzing Costs in Managerial Accounting
This quiz gives students the opportunity to assess their knowledge of cost concepts used in managerial accounting such as opportunity costs, marginal costs, relevant costs and the benefits and relationships that derive from them.