ch. 25: Privacy - Quiz

Which country has a reputation for poor privacy practices?

China

Which act requires credit agencies to perform timely investigations on inaccuracies reported by consumers?

Fair Credit Reporting Act

Data wiping is destructive to the media. True or False?

False

Privacy laws as they relate to education are very recent phenomena. True or False?

False

The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is designed to protect educational records of students at the K-12 level. True or False?

False

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) was designed to enable public access to U.S. government records. True or False?

False

Which contractual regulation is a standard that provides guidance on what elements of a credit card transaction need protection and the level of expected protection?

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

In the United States, the primary path to privacy is via __________, and in Europe and other countries, it is via __________.

opt-out; opt-in

Which term refers to a structured approach to determining the gap between desired privacy performance and actual privacy performance?

privacy impact assessment

What process involves rewriting storage media with a series of patterns of 1's and 0's?

wiping

Which data destruction method is considered to be one of the gold standard methods for electronic media?

burning

Application programs called __________ are designed to prevent the transfer of cookies between browsers and web servers.

cookie cutters

Data __________ are responsible for the day-to-day caretaking of data.

custodians

The EU has developed a comprehensive concept of privacy, which is administered via a set of statutes known as __________.

data protection

A circular buffer is a great example of an automatic purge mechanism. True or False?

True

It is important to protect the integrity of public data. True or False?

True

The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) mandates that information that is no longer needed must be properly disposed of or irreversibly destroyed. True or False?

True

The Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) is considered to be the strongest U.S. privacy law by many privacy advocates. True or False?

True

The development of a privacy policy is an essential foundational element of a company's privacy stance. True or False?

True

The three words that can govern good citizenry when collecting PII are notice, choice, and consent. True or False?

True