Deck 20: Privacy

Question 1

The TIA program remains a key component of federal efforts to curtail terrorism and also remains a key concern of privacy advocates.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The Total Information Awareness tracking information system was created by ____.

A) the state of Illinois
B) the U.S.federal government
C) the United Nations
D) Microsoft

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The U.S.government maintains the largest repository of information about U.S.citizens.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Citizens of free and democratic nations expect,at the least,privacy ____.

A) in the workplace
B) of commercial records
C) within the home
D) in their social profiles

Question 5

MATRIX-like information collection/data mining technology is still used in some states in the United States today.

Question 6

Data mining involves collecting and analyzing large amounts of information stored in large databases.

Question 7

A challenge for companies such as Google and Facebook is building software that can ____ over the next few years.

A) filter inappropriate material
B) sift through people's profiles
C) analyze large amounts of data
D) handle alphabetizing data

Question 8

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States protects an individual's right to privacy of person and possession against unreasonable searches.

Question 9

Through the use of ____,governments can keep an eye on criminals and monitor regions in their own countries.

A) throttling
B) satellite imagery
C) traffic shaping
D) RFID

Question 10

One-to-one marketing occurs when a business closely studies an individual's web behavior and then predicts what the individual may be interested in purchasing.

Question 11

MATRIX technology ____.

A) is known to have prevented at least eight major terror plots in the United States
B) was proposed but never developed
C) is still implemented at the federal level
D) is still implemented by some states

Question 12

The ease of access to information on the Internet has made it harder to maintain personal privacy.

Question 13

The Freedom of Information Act came about as a response to the Privacy Act of 1974.

Question 14

Throttling is a way that ISPs can shape traffic and rein in the heavy-bandwidth users.

Question 15

The Bill of Rights addresses privacy issues in the United States.

Question 16

In the United States,the fundamental law that specifies what kinds of information the government can keep about its citizens and the rights of citizens to know what's kept about them is the ____.

A) Privacy Act of 1974
B) Consumer Internet Privacy Protection Act of 1997
C) Freedom of Information Act of 1966
D) Information Protection and Security Act of 2005

Question 17

Surveillance cameras in public places are not considered a potential threat to privacy.

Question 18

Microblogging and lifestreaming are both forms of transparency.

Question 19

____ can tell more about a person than all other kinds of electronic surveillance.

A) Wiretapping
B) Data mining
C) GPS tracking
D) RFID surveillance

Question 20

The biggest challenge posed by Big Data is ____.

A) physical storage
B) viruses and malware
C) developing software to analyze the massive amount of data
D) traffic shaping

Question 21

Of the following,____ contains the most information about citizens of the United States.

A) Time Warner
B) LexisNexis
C) the federal government
D) Facebook

Question 22

____ is currently dampening the ability of government surveillance to grow.

A) Data transmission speed
B) Lack of funding and personnel
C) The "tech ceiling"
D) The poor quality of satellite images

Question 23

Of the following,____ is considered the most invasive.

A) traditional marketing
B) onsite behavioral marketing
C) network behavioral targeting
D) market segmentation

Question 24

____ is a form of traffic shaping.

A) Behavioral marketing
B) Wiretapping
C) Throttling
D) Full transparency

Question 25

Full transparency is a scenario in which surveillance and information are ____.

A) ended unequivocally and forever
B) held only in the hands of the federal government as caretakers of the information gathered
C) the responsibility solely of non-governmental organizations
D) easily available to every law-abiding member of a society

Question 26

A(n)____ lifestyle involves ridding oneself of all concerns about privacy.

A) traditional
B) transparent
C) opaque
D) semi-trust

Question 27

____ favor(s)an Internet that is open,with packets unexamined and unfiltered.

A) Network neutrality
B) ISPs
C) Comcast
D) The UN Office of Electronic Freedom

Question 28

Twitter is a ____ site.

A) behavioral marketing
B) microblogging
C) lifestreaming
D) network-neutral

Question 29

Studying the way people use the web-what sites they visit,what products they buy,etc.-is an example of ____.

A) mass marketing
B) mass-market segmentation
C) one-to-one marketing
D) a crime