Legal, Regulations, Compliance, and Investigations

Question 1

Administrative law

Answer 1

Encompasses the laws and legal principles defining the powers, procedures, processes, and acts of administrative agencies.

Question 2

Civil law

Answer 2

Highly systematized and structured and relies on declarations of broad, general principles, often ignoring the details.

Question 3

Copyright

Answer 3

Covers the expression of ideas.

Question 4

Criminal law

Answer 4

Deals with addressing the behaviors or conduct that are seen as harmful to the general public and/or society in general.

Question 5

Customary law

Answer 5

Consists of the written and unwritten rules that have developed from the customs and traditions of communities.

Question 6

Freeware

Answer 6

Software that can be used, copied, studied, modified, and redistributed without restriction.

Question 7

Hearsay

Answer 7

Evidence that is based on what the witness was told rather than on his or her personal knowledge and is not normally admissible in court.

Question 8

Intellectual property

Answer 8

Proprietary business or technical information, processes, designs, practices, etc., that are confidential and critical to the business.

Question 9

Interrogation

Answer 9

An adversarial technique where the suspect is put under real or perceived stress (often through being accused of complicity in the crime) in order to compel him or her to confess or divulge specific information.

Question 10

Interviewing

Answer 10

The purpose of this is information gathering with the objective of seeking/ determining the truth.

Question 11

Libel and defamation

Answer 11

The legal responsibility that one might have for making false statements that harm the reputation of another.

Question 12

Patents

Answer 12

Protect novel, useful, and non-obvious inventions.

Question 13

Privacy and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Answer 13

A group of 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy. It has eight core principles pertaining to the protection of privacy and personal information.

Question 14

Prudent person rule

Answer 14

The general test for appropriate and responsible protection of assets. It considers what actions a careful person would take to protect the assets of the organization from harm or unnecessary risk.

Question 15

Religious Law

Answer 15

Law is considered to be decreed by a Supreme Being. Lawmakers and law scholars do not create laws; they attempt to discover the truth of law.

Question 16

Shareware

Answer 16

A marketing method for commercial software, whereby a trial version is distributed in advance and without payment, as is common for proprietary software.

Question 17

Trademark

Answer 17

Protects the “good will” that merchants or vendors invest in the recognition of their products.