Chapter 6

Ace your homework & exams now with Quizwiz!

The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act

All

After Congress ruled that wiretapping was illegal

the FBI continued wiretapping people secretly

The Financial Services Modernization Act

All

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

12

The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Acts require 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 ___ years of age and older the right to review their educational records

18

To protect citizens from interruptions by telemarketer, the US 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 the daily basis

Edward Snowden

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

Federal Communications Act

The ___ is a federal law signed in 1996 that is designed to ensure that citizens have access to records of the US government

Freedom of Information Act

In Nardone vs United States, the US Supreme Court ruled that evidence obtained by federal agents from warrantless wiretaps was ___

Inadmissable in court

The FBI maintains a collection of databases supporting the activites of federal, state and local law-enforcement angencies in the United States. The US, 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 US governmental agency collected telephone call records of tens of millions of Americans without a court order

National Security Agency

Between 1945 and 1975 the US government secretly monitored telegram traffic entering and leaving the United States, as well as other communications. The name of this project was ___

Operation Shamrock

After the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 the US Congress passed the ___ which gave federal law enforcement and intelligence officials greater authority to monitor communications

USA Patriot Act

The ___prohibit video service providers from disclosing records without the written consent of the customers

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 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 Probability 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 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...criminals 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

Which of the following is not one of the categories in Daniel Solove's taxonomy of privacy

information filtering

What was the original purpose of Operation Shamrock

intercept all international telegrams entering or leaving the United States

The Fair Credit Reporting Act

is designed to promote the accuracy of credit reports

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act limits how doctor, hospitals, and insurance companies can use ___ collected from patients

medical information

According to the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, which organizations cannot administer lie detector tests to job applicants

private employers

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

prohibits most employees 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

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

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 US Constitution has to do with

search warrants

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 OneDOJ database

will give state and local police officers access to information provided by five federal law enforcement agencies


Related study sets

Classics 211 - Greek History Midterm

View Set

Managing conflict through forgiveness

View Set

Chapter 43 Airway Clearance Therapy (ACT)

View Set

Fluid, Electrolyte, Acid-Base Balance

View Set

Strategic Management Test 1 Ch. 1-4

View Set

Ch. 24 Digestive System Fill-in-the-blank

View Set

GRADE 4: SCIENCE: C1-L3: How are plants classified?

View Set