Chapter 6
The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act
All
After Congress ruled that wiretapping was illegal
the FBI continued wiretapping people secretly
The Financial Services Modernization Act
All
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires online services to obtain parental consent before collecting any information from children ___ years and younger.
12
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Acts require the three major credit bureaus to provide customers a free copy of their credit report every ___ months
12
The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act provides students ___ years of age and older the right to review their educational records
18
To protect citizens from interruptions by telemarketer, the US Federal Trade Commission created the ___ in 2003
Do Not Call Registry
In 2013, based on documents leaked by ___ the British paper the Guardian revealed that Verizon was providing the National Security Agency records of all of its customers calls on the daily basis
Edward Snowden
Which of the following laws does not provide some sort of authorization for governmental wiretapping
Federal Communications Act
The ___ is a federal law signed in 1996 that is designed to ensure that citizens have access to records of the US government
Freedom of Information Act
In Nardone vs United States, the US Supreme Court ruled that evidence obtained by federal agents from warrantless wiretaps was ___
Inadmissable in court
The FBI maintains a collection of databases supporting the activites of federal, state and local law-enforcement angencies in the United States. The US, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Canada. These databases are given the name ___
National Crime Information Center(NCIC)
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which US governmental agency collected telephone call records of tens of millions of Americans without a court order
National Security Agency
Between 1945 and 1975 the US government secretly monitored telegram traffic entering and leaving the United States, as well as other communications. The name of this project was ___
Operation Shamrock
After the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 the US Congress passed the ___ which gave federal law enforcement and intelligence officials greater authority to monitor communications
USA Patriot Act
The ___prohibit video service providers from disclosing records without the written consent of the customers
Video Privacy Protection Act
The Census Bureau has not always kept confidential the information it has collected. According to the textbook, this became apparent
after the Pearl Harbor
The CALM Act, signed by President Obama in 2010, requires that television commercials ___
are played at the same volume as the programs they are interrupting
The Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act
attempts to limit the exchange of information among health care providers to that information necessary to care for the patient
The Fair Credit Reporting Act says credit bureaus may keep may keep negative information about a consumer for a maximum of seven years. The two most important exceptions to the "seven year rule" are information about ___ and ___
bankruptcies...criminals convictions
The FBI's National Crime Information Center database
contains more than 39 million records
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
gives consumers the right to request a free copy of their credit report every year
The Privacy Act of 1974 applies only to ___ databases
government
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
The Fair Credit Reporting Act
is designed to promote the accuracy of credit reports
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act limits how doctor, hospitals, and insurance companies can use ___ collected from patients
medical information
According to the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, which organizations cannot administer lie detector tests to job applicants
private employers
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
prohibits most employees 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
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
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 Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution has to do with
search warrants
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 OneDOJ database
will give state and local police officers access to information provided by five federal law enforcement agencies
