CSCI3030: Privacy and the Government

Which of the following laws does not provide some sort of authorization for governmental wiretapping?

Federal Communications Act

After the terrorist attacks of September 11

2001, which U.S. governmental agency collected telephone call records of tens of millions of Americans without a court order?,National Security Agency

The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act

gives consumers the right to request a free copy of their credit report every year.

In Carpenter v. United States the US Supreme Court ruled that it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment when police or prosecutors access what kind of information without a search warrant?

Cell phone location information

Which of the following statements about the REAL ID Act is not true?

Congress repealed the REAL ID Act after many states refused to issue new driver's licenses.

Which of the following is not one of the categories in Daniel Solove's taxonomy of privacy

Information filtering

What was the original purpose of Operation Shamrock?

Intercept all international telegrams entering or leaving the United States.

According to the Employee Polygraph Protection Act which organization(s) cannot administer lie detector tests to job applicants? Select all that apply.,

Most private employers

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution has to do with

Search warrants

After Congress ruled that wiretapping was illegal

The FBI continued wiretapping people secretly

Which of the following precepts is not part of the Code of Fair Information Practices?

There must be a way for a person to collect damages for financial losses caused by incorrect information about that person stored in a data record-keeping system.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

attempts to limit the exchange of information among health care providers to that information necessary to care for the patient.

The FBI's National Crime Information Center database

consists of 21 files with more than a million records.

The OneDOJ database

gives state and local police officers access to information provided by five federal law enforcement agencies.

Which of the following apply to the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act? Select all that apply.

gives students 18 years of age and older the right to prevent educational records from being released without their permission gives students 18 years of age and older the right to review their educational records. gives students 18 years of age and older the right to request corrections to errors in their educational records.

The Fair Credit Reporting Act

is designed to promote the accuracy of credit reports.

The USA Freedom Act

passed in 2015, is significant because,it put new restrictions on the government's surveillance activities.

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

prohibits most employers from taking genetic information into account when making hiring, firing, promotion, or other employment-related decisions.

The Video Privacy Protection Act

prohibits video stores from disclosing rental records without the written consent of the customer

Which of the following apply to the Financial Services Modernization Act? Select all that apply.

requires banks to inform consumers how they can "opt out" of having their confidential information released to other companies. requires banks to disclose their privacy policies to consumers. allows banks to offer insurance and stock brokerage services. requires banks to develop policies that will prevent unauthorized access of customers' confidential information.

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

requires online services to obtain parental consent before collecting any information from children 12 years old and younger.

The Census Bureau has not always kept confidential the information it has collected. According to the textbook

this became apparent,after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

According to records leaked to the Guardian newspaper

which of the following kinds of information were not released by Verizon to the National Security Agency?,Recording of the conversation