cs117 ch6 practice questions

- What was the original purpose of Operation Shamrock?

Intercept all international telegrams entering or leaving the United States

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

12

- 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

12

- The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act provides students 18 years of age and older the right to review their educational records.

18

- 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.

- To protect citizens from interruptions by telemarketers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission created the ______in 2003.

Do Not Call Registry

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

Federal Communications 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 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

- 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

- _______t is a federal law signed in 1966 that is designed to ensure that citizens have access to records of the U.S. government.

The Freedom of Information Ac

- 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.

- 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 confidential the information it has collected. According to the textbook, this became apparent

after the attack on 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 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 ______

bankruptcies and criminal 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

- In Nardone v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence obtained by federal agents from warrantless wiretaps was ______.

inadmissible in court

- 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.

- 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 Video Privacy Protection Act

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

- 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 U.S. Constitution has to do with

search warrants.

- 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 information provided by five federal law enforcement agencies.