Suppose you are asked to fill out a study questionnaire that requires you to enter identifying data
Question:
Suppose you are asked to fill out a study questionnaire that requires you to enter identifying data as well as answers to personal questions. You hesitate to provide the data, but the top part of the questionnaire states, “All responses will be strictly confidential.” So, you fill out the questionnaire.
Unfortunately, the person who is conducting the study visits the same wireless coffee shop that you visited (in question 2), and the same malicious student breaks in and steals the study results. Your name and all of your responses appear on that same student Web site. Did the person conducting the study violate a law?
Does the confidentiality assurance on the form increase that person’s requirement to protect your data? Does your answer change if the person conducting the study is
(a) a student,
(b) a professor of music, or
(c) a professor of computer security?
Step by Step Answer:
Processes, Systems, And Information An Introduction To MIS
ISBN: 0134827007
2nd Edition
Authors: Earl McKinney Jr, David Kroenke