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.
