Exam 4: Privacy

A sunset provision extends a law beyond a specific date unless further legislative action is taken to repeal the law.

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ____.

The ____ is a 1970 federal act that outlines who may access your credit information, how you can find out what is in your file, how to dispute inaccurate data, and how long data is retained.

The Freedom of Information Act prohibits the government from concealing the existence of any personal data record-keeping systems.

Demographic filtering augments click-stream data and user-supplied data with demographic information associated with user zip codes to make product suggestions.

Present a brief argument both for and against the use of advanced surveillance technology.

The right to personal privacy is explicitly spelled out in the Constitution.

The ____, passed as an amendment to Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act establishes a requirement for court-approved law enforcement use of a pen register or trap and trace.

The 1980 privacy guidelines set by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are also known as the ____ and are often held up as the model of ethical treatment of consumer data for organizations to adopt.

In Doe v. Holder, the courts ruled that the NSL gag rule (prohibits NSL recipients from informing anyone that the government has secretly requested his or her records) violates the ____.

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act repealed the prohibition of any one institution from offering investment, commercial banking, and insurance services. It also included three key rules that affect personal privacy: financial privacy rule, safeguards rule, and pretexting rule.

The use of cookies and tracking software is controversial because companies can collect information about consumers without their explicit permission.

The U.S. approach to data privacy involves strict government regulation while the European approach relies on self-regulation.

Public sector employees have far greater privacy rights than those in private industry because the Fourth Amendment does not limit how a private employer treats its employees.

Marketing firms ____________________ the information they gather about consumers to build databases that contain a huge amount of consumer data.

The use of information technology in business requires balancing the needs of those who use the information that is collected against the rights and desires of the people whose information is being used.

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, healthcare companies must appoint a(n) ____________________ to develop privacy policies and procedures as well as train employees on how to handle sensitive patient data.

The right to privacy is closely associated with the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

Outline the two basic requirements for filing a Freedom of Information Request and the process for handling such a request.

Incidents of identity theft exceeded 4% of the overall U.S. adult population in 2008 resulting in losses of some $48 billion.