Chapter 6
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act requires the three major credit bureaus to provide customers a free copy of their credit report every__ months.
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The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
gives consumers the right to request a free copy of their credit report every year.
What was the original purpose of Operation Shamrock?
Intercept all international telegrams entering or leaving the United States
What law does not provide some sort of authorization for governemtnal wirerapping?
Federal Communications Act
The FBI's National Crime INformation Center database
contains more than 39 milllion recoreds
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Consitionations has to do with
search warrants
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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The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act provides students__ years of age and older the right to review their educational records.
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To protect citizens from interruptions by telemarketers, the U.S. 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 a daily basis.
Edward Snowden
The _____________________________ is a federal law signed in 1966 that is designed to ensure that citizens have access to records of the U.S. government.
Freedom of Information Act
The FBI maintains a collection of databases supporting the activities of federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies in the United States, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Canada. These databases are given the name _____________________.
National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
After the terroist attaks of September 11, 2001, which U.S. governmental agency collected telephone call recrods for tens of millions of Americans without a court order?
National Security Agency
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 Genetic Information Nondiscimination Act
Prohibits most employers from taking genetic information ainto account when making hiring, firing promition or other employement-related decision
The Video Privacy Protection Act
Prohibits video stores from disclosing rental records withotu 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?
Recoring of the conversation
Which of the following precepts is not part of teh Code of Fair Infromation 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.
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 _____________________ prohibits video service providers from disclosing records without the written consent of the customer.
Video Privacy Protection Act
The Census Bureau has not always kept confideantial the information it has collected. According to the textbook, this became apparent
after the attack on Pearl Harbor
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 Financial Services Modernization Act
allows banks to offer insurance and stock brokerage services, requires banks to disclose their privacy policies to consumers, requires banks to inform consumers how they can "opt out" of having their confidential information released to other companies, and Requires banks to develop policies that will prevent unauthorized access of customers' confidential information.
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 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 Fair Credit Reporting Act says credit bureaus 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 | criminal convictions
The FBI's National Crime Information Center database
contains more than 39 million records.
The Family Education RIghts and Privacy Act
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, and gives students 18 years of age and older the right to prevent educational records from being released without their permission, except under certain circumstances.
The Privacy Act of 1974 applies only to __________________ databases.
government
In Nardone v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence obtained by federal agents from warrantless wiretaps was ______________.
inadmissible in court
What are the categories in Daniel Solove's taxonomy of privacy
information collection, information dissemination, information processing, and invasion.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act
is designed to promote the accuracy of credit reports
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act limits how doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies can use ______________ collected from patients.
medical information
According to the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, which organization(s) cannot administer lie detector tests to job applicants?
private employers
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
requires online services to obtain parental consent before collectin any information from children 12 years old and younger
After Congress ruled that wiretapping was illegal
the FBI continued wiretapping people secretly
The OneDOJ database
will give state and local police officers access to infromation provided by five federal law enforcement agencies
