Deck 6: Privacy and the Government

Question 1

What was the original purpose of Operation Shamrock?

A) Intercept all international telegrams entering or leaving the United States.
B) Wiretap all calls made from public telephone booths.
C) Scan email messages to identify drug dealers.
D) Read all letters going between the United States and Ireland.
E) Identify Irish-Americans raising money for the IRA.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act

A) gives students 18 years of age and older the right to review their educational records.
B) gives students 18 years of age and older the right to request corrections to errors in their educational records.
C) gives students 18 years of age and older the right to prevent educational records from being released without their permission, except under certain circumstances.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act

A) gives consumers the right to request a free copy of their credit report every year.
B) allows credit bureaus to sell personal financial information they have gathered.
C) makes it possible for a consumer to declare bankruptcy without harming his or her credit rating.
D) ensures that people with criminal convictions are still able to obtain credit.
E) All of the above

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following precepts is not part of the Code of Fair Information Practices?

A) There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret.
B) There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used.
C) There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person.
D) 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.
E) There must be a way for a person to prevent information obtained for one purpose being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent.

Question 5

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

A) applies to all private employers, but not state or federal agencies.
B) prohibits most employers from taking genetic information into account when making hiring, firing, promotion, or other employment-related decisions.
C) ensures a life insurance company cannot take genetic information into account when making a decision about underwriting a policy.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.

Question 6

After Congress ruled that wiretapping was illegal

A) the FBI ceased all wiretapping activity.
B) the FBI continued wiretapping people secretly.
C) the FBI convinced Congress to grant it an exemption from the ban.
D) the FBI began wiretapping every member of Congress.
E) the CIA took over the job of wiretapping U.S. citizens.

Question 7

The OneDOJ database

A) is a new, national database that consolidates records from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
B) gives state and local police officers access to information provided by five federal law enforcement agencies.
C) combines records from all U.S. governmental agencies into a single database that can be used by data mining by the FBI.
D) received the endorsement of the ACLU for its innovative privacy-protection measures.
E) is the first database created by the U.S. government that completely implements the Code of Fair Information Practices.

Question 8

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

A) most private employers
B) local governments
C) state governments
D) federal government
E) All of the above

Question 9

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

A) information collection.
B) information dissemination.
C) information filtering.
D) information processing.
E) invasion.

Question 10

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

A) makes it illegal for an online service to request a credit card number from a child 17 years old and younger.
B) requires online services to create aliases for all customers who are 17 years old and younger.
C) makes it illegal for children 12 years and younger to participate in chat rooms.
D) requires online services to obtain parental consent before collecting any information from children 12 years old and younger.
E) All of the above

Question 11

The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act

A) gives students 18 years of age and older the right to review their educational records.
B) gives students 18 years of age and older the right to request corrections to errors in their educational records.
C) gives students 18 years of age and older the right to prevent educational records from being released without their permission, except under certain circumstances.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 12

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

A) Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
B) Electronic Communications Privacy Act
C) Federal Communications Act
D) Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
E) USA PATRIOT Act

Question 13

The Financial Services Modernization Act

A) allows banks to offer insurance and stock brokerage services.
B) requires banks to disclose their privacy policies to consumers.
C) requires banks to inform consumers how they can "opt out" of having their confidential information released to other companies.
D) Requires banks to develop policies that will prevent unauthorized access of customers' confidential information.
E) All of the above

Question 14

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution has to do with

A) freedom of speech and religion.
B) search warrants.
C) the right to bear arms.
D) quartering of soldiers in private homes.
E) self-incrimination.

Question 15

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?

A) Central Intelligence Agency
B) Department of Homeland Security
C) Federal Bureau of Investigation
D) Federal Communications Commission
E) National Security Agency

Question 16

The Census Bureau has not always kept confidential the information it has collected. According to the textbook, this became apparent

A) during the Civil War.
B) after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
C) during the Vietnam War.
D) during the first Gulf War.
E) after September 11, 2001.

Question 17

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?

A) Date of the telephone call
B) Duration of the telephone call
C) Location of the telephone making the call
D) Recording of the conversation
E) Time of the telephone call

Question 18

The Fair Credit Reporting Act

A) gives consumers the right to request a free copy of their credit report every year.
B) ensures that information about criminal convictions does not haunt a consumer's credit report forever.
C) is designed to promote the accuracy of credit reports.
D) makes it possible for a consumer to declare bankruptcy without harming his or her credit rating.
E) All of the above

Question 19

Which of the following statements about the REAL ID Act is not true?

A) The REAL ID Act required states to issue new driver's licenses with stronger verification of identities before licenses are issued.
B) The driver's licenses mandated by the REAL ID Act have security features designed to prevent tampering, counterfeiting, and duplication.
C) Legislatures in about half the states passed laws or resolutions opposing the REAL ID Act.
D) Between 70 and 80 percent of US drivers now hold licenses from states that meet the standards of the REAL ID Act.
E) Congress repealed the REAL ID Act after many states refused to issue new driver's licenses.

Question 20

The FBI's National Crime Information Center database

A) contains more than 39 million records.
B) has information about every American citizen.
C) has never led to a false arrest.
D) is updated only once a week to give the FBI time to check the accuracy of the data.
E) All of the above

Question 21

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 a daily basis.

Question 22

In Nardone v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence obtained by federal agents from warrantless wiretaps was .

Question 23

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.

Question 24

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 .

Question 25

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 .

Question 26

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 .

Question 27

The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act provides students years of age and older the right to review their educational records.

Question 28

To protect citizens from interruptions by telemarketers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission created the in 2003.

Question 29

The is a federal law signed in 1966 that is designed to ensure that citizens have access to records of the U.S. government.

Question 30

In 2015 the US Congress passed the USA Freedom Act ensuring that the government get a court order before accessing .

Question 31

The Privacy Act of 1974 applies only to databases.

Question 32

The Video Privacy Protection Act

A) prohibits video stores from disclosing rental records without the written consent of the customer.
B) prohibits DVD manufacturers from installing software that sends reports over the Internet every time a DVD is played.
C) makes it legal to send "adult" DVDs through the mail without a warning label on the envelope.
D) prohibits the government from prosecuting minors who play "adult" DVDs in their own home.
E) All of the above

Question 33

The CALM Act, signed by President Obama in 2010, requires that television commercials .

Question 34

The prohibits video service providers from disclosing records without the written consent of the customer.

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

A) ensures that a consumer can keep the same health care provider even when he or she changes employers.
B) attempts to limit the exchange of information among health care providers to that information necessary to care for the patient.
C) ensures that a consumer can sue doctors and hospitals for medical malpractice.
D) ensures that doctors and hospitals can counter sue patients who file frivolous medical malpractice claims.
E) All of the above

Question 38

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.