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Running head: MANAGING INFORMATION SYSTEM
Managing Information System
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MANAGING INFORMATION SYSTEM
Table of Contents
Assignment 1...............................................................................................................................................2
Question 1...............................................................................................................................................2
Question 2...............................................................................................................................................2
Question 3...............................................................................................................................................2
Question 4...............................................................................................................................................3
Assignment 2...............................................................................................................................................4
Question 1...............................................................................................................................................4
Question 2...............................................................................................................................................4
Question 3...............................................................................................................................................4
Question 4...............................................................................................................................................5
Question 5...............................................................................................................................................5
Question 6...............................................................................................................................................6
Question 7...............................................................................................................................................6
Question 8...............................................................................................................................................7
References...................................................................................................................................................9

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MANAGING INFORMATION SYSTEM
Assignment 1
Question 1
When Facebook was accused of not providing proper security to the data of the customers, they
undertook some of the major steps for data privacy, such as investigating each and every application,
which provide accessibility to the larger amounts of information from 2014 and new plans for restricting
the data access of developers. They also adopted new and tougher terms and conditions for the 3rd party
application developers, upgrading the privacy tools, designed for making them much easier to utilize,
closing few programs (Laudon & Laudon 2016, p. 2). Moreover, they included an easy tool for data
management, known as Access Your Information for providing simple method to promptly manage,
download and delete the posts or information of personal profiles. They even enabled the users in easily
seeing the information, utilized by the company for serving targeted advertising.
According to the data policy section of Facebook.com, the user can manage or delete his or her
information by clicking on the button of “Edit Profile” and then clicking on the “X” button in the corner
of the item that is required to be removed or deleted from the profile. Finally, the user has to eventually
click on the “Save Changes” button for saving the changes.
Question 2
The main purpose of GDPR or General Data Protection Regulation is to provide a regulation
within EU law for privacy and protection of data for all the citizens of entire European Union and the
European Economic Area (Laudon & Laudon 2015, p. 1). It even addresses the total transferring of
personal data outside the areas of EEA and EU. It provides control to the individuals for personal data
and even simplifies regulatory environment for all types of international businesses after unifying
regulation in the EU.
Four major data protection and privacy requirements of this GDPR are as follows:
i) Requiring basic consent from the user for processing of confidential data.
ii) Anonymizing the collected information for ensuring security.
iii) Providing significant notifications regarding data breaches.
iv) Safely handling the total transferring of data across borders.
Question 3
The e-business model of Facebook is extremely diversified and comprises of a proper business
strategy. Facebook tracks both the non-users and users on all other applications and sites for targeting
the audiences (Chang 2016, p. 5). They have included few of the most distinctive companies in their
business model, which are Atlas, Instagram, Facebook Payments Inc., Onavo, Parse, LiveRail,
WhatsApp, Moves, Oculus and Masquerade. The revenue model on the other hand, helps to make over