Computer ethics chapter 6

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.

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

information filtering

The Fair Credit Reporting Act

is designed to promote the accuracy of credit reports

Between 1945 and 1975 the U.S. government secretly monitored telegram traffic entering and leaving the United States, as well as other communications. The name of this project was ________.

Operation Shamrock

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires online services to obtain parental consent before collecting any information from children ________ years old and younger.

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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 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

The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act

All of the above

The Financial Services Modernization Act

All of the above

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

All of the above

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

Federal Communications Act

What was the original purpose of Operation Shamrock?

Intercept all international telegrams entering or leaving the United States

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Congress passed the ________, which gave federal law enforcement and intelligence officials greater authority to monitor communications.

USA Patriot Act

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

After Congress ruled that wiretapping was illegal

the FBI continued wiretapping people secretly