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Match the items in the left column to the items in the right column.

The legal guidelines for determining whether material is obscene include all of the following EXCEPT

What are three legal reasons for employers to monitor email, voice mail, and computer files?

List and explain three principles for producing good systems?

In 2000, a French court ordered Yahoo! to block access by French people to

Which of the following is not a factor specified in U.S. copyright law for determining fair use.

Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp. in the late 1970’s, Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM in the early 1940’s, and Thomas Edison all made predictions about technology that were extremely wrong.  Give 3 reasons why the predictions of experts are often so far off?

The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) said that

The USA PATRIOT Act (2001) gives individuals more protection from governmental intrusion.

a. Give two examples of job categories for which the increased productivity of computer systems strongly reduced the number of people working in those areas. b. Give an example of an area in which computer technology reduces jobs for skilled workers. Give an example of how computer technology enables people with less skill and/or training to do jobs that used to require more.  Explain how computer technology changed the skill level required for these jobs. c. Give two examples of jobs that did not exist before the Internet.