Quiz 6

What was the original purpose of Operation Shamrock?

Intercept all international telegrams entering or leaving the United States

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

Federal Communications Act

The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act

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

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

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

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 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 develop policies that will prevent unauthorized access of customers' confidential information. 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.

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

contains more than 39 million records.

The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act

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

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.

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

private employers

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.

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.