COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
ETHICS IN COMPUTING
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Question
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The US government collects, stores and monitors all the metadata of all electronic communications. Metadata includes information such as telephone number called, date, time and duration of a call.
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Metadata is descriptive information that pinpoints your communications and other activities. Simply put, it’s all of the information that can be collected from your emails, phone calls, purchase histories, and the various locations you frequent.
Detailed explanation-2: -Metadata ensure that data are FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable. Findable: Metadata make it much easier to find relevant data. Most searches are done using text (like a Google search), so formats like audio, images, and video are limited unless textual metadata are available.
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